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 …

Transcription factor dynamics: one molecule at a time

K Wagh, DA Stavreva, A Upadhyaya… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Cells must tightly regulate their gene expression programs and yet rapidly respond to acute
biochemical and biophysical cues within their environment. This information is transmitted to …

Multifunctional intrinsically disordered regions in transcription factors

M Már, K Nitsenko… - Chemistry–A European …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Eukaryotic transcription factors (TFs) are the final integrators of a complex molecular
feedback mechanism that interfaces with the genome, consolidating information for …

Complementary strategies for directing in vivo transcription factor binding through DNA binding domains and intrinsically disordered regions

DK Kumar, F Jonas, T Jana, S Brodsky, M Carmi… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
DNA binding domains (DBDs) of transcription factors (TFs) recognize DNA sequence motifs
that are highly abundant in genomes. Within cells, TFs bind a subset of motif-containing sites …

The molecular grammar of protein disorder guiding genome-binding locations

F Jonas, M Carmi, B Krupkin, J Steinberger… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) direct transcription factors (TFs) towards selected
genomic occurrences of their binding motif, as exemplified by budding yeast's Msn2 …

Evolution of binding preferences among whole-genome duplicated transcription factors

T Gera, F Jonas, R More, N Barkai - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Throughout evolution, new transcription factors (TFs) emerge by gene duplication,
promoting growth and rewiring of transcriptional networks. How TF duplicates diverge was …

Revisiting the model for coactivator recruitment: Med15 can select its target sites independent of promoter-bound transcription factors

V Mindel, S Brodsky, H Yung, W Manadre… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Activation domains (ADs) within transcription factors (TFs) induce gene expression by
recruiting coactivators such as the Mediator complex. Coactivators lack DNA binding …

Transcription factors perform a 2-step search of the nucleus

MV Staller - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factors regulate gene expression by binding to regulatory DNA and recruiting
regulatory protein complexes. The DNA-binding and protein-binding functions of …

Connecting sequence features within the disordered C-terminal linker of Bacillus subtilis FtsZ to functions and bacterial cell division

MK Shinn, MC Cohan, JL Bullock… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) can function as autoregulators of folded enzymes to
which they are tethered. One example is the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ. This includes …

The architecture of binding cooperativity between densely bound transcription factors

O Lupo, DK Kumar, R Livne, M Chappleboim, I Levy… - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
The binding of transcription factors (TFs) along genomes is restricted to a subset of sites
containing their preferred motifs. TF-binding specificity is often attributed to the co-binding of …