Targeting transcription factors in cancer—from undruggable to reality

JH Bushweller - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Mutated or dysregulated transcription factors represent a unique class of drug targets that
mediate aberrant gene expression, including blockade of differentiation and cell death gene …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

[HTML][HTML] Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction

M Necci, D Piovesan, SCE Tosatto - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins, defying the traditional protein structure–function paradigm,
are a challenge to study experimentally. Because a large part of our knowledge rests on …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

Rapid prediction and analysis of protein intrinsic disorder

GW Dayhoff, VN Uversky - Protein Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protein intrinsic disorder is found in all kingdoms of life and is known to underpin numerous
physiological and pathological processes. Computational methods play an important role in …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: critical components of the wetware

P Kulkarni, S Bhattacharya, S Achuthan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite the wealth of knowledge gained about intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) since
their discovery, there are several aspects that remain unexplored and, hence, poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Human PCNA structure, function, and interactions

A González-Magaña, FJ Blanco - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is an essential factor in DNA replication and repair.
It forms a homotrimeric ring that embraces the DNA and slides along it, anchoring DNA …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions

CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions fail to form a stable structure, yet
they exhibit biological activities. Their mobile flexibility and structural instability are encoded …