The molecular basis for cellular function of intrinsically disordered protein regions

AS Holehouse, BB Kragelund - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered protein regions exist in a collection of dynamic interconverting
conformations that lack a stable 3D structure. These regions are structurally heterogeneous …

Intrinsically disordered protein regions and phase separation: sequence determinants of assembly or lack thereof.

EW Martin, AS Holehouse - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2020 - europepmc.org
Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs)-regions that do not fold into a fixed three-
dimensional structure but instead exist in a heterogeneous ensemble of conformations-have …

Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

A Borgia, MB Borgia, K Bugge, VM Kissling… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Molecular communication in biology is mediated by protein interactions. According to the
current paradigm, the specificity and affinity required for these interactions are encoded in …

Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2

TR Alderson, I Pritišanac, Đ Kolarić… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database contains predicted structures for millions of
proteins. For the majority of human proteins that contain intrinsically disordered regions …

Intrinsically disordered proteins in cellular signalling and regulation

PE Wright, HJ Dyson - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are important components of the cellular signalling
machinery, allowing the same polypeptide to undertake different interactions with different …

RGG/RG motif regions in RNA binding and phase separation

PA Chong, RM Vernon, JD Forman-Kay - Journal of molecular biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract RGG/RG motifs are RNA binding segments found in many proteins that can partition
into membraneless organelles. They occur in the context of low-complexity disordered …

Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins

R Van Der Lee, M Buljan, B Lang, RJ Weatheritt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have observed a massive increase in the amount of information
describing protein sequences from a variety of organisms. 1, 2 While this may reflect the …

NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why
malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional …

The contribution of intrinsically disordered regions to protein function, cellular complexity, and human disease

MM Babu - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2016 - portlandpress.com
In the 1960s, Christian Anfinsen postulated that the unique three-dimensional structure of a
protein is determined by its amino acid sequence. This work laid the foundation for the …

Modulation of intrinsically disordered protein function by post-translational modifications

A Bah, JD Forman-Kay - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) produce significant changes in the structural
properties of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) by affecting their energy landscapes …