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 …

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 …

Clonally expanded B cells in multiple sclerosis bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM

TV Lanz, RC Brewer, PP Ho, JS Moon, KM Jude… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a heterogenous autoimmune disease in which autoreactive
lymphocytes attack the myelin sheath of the central nervous system. B lymphocytes in the …

Reversible phase separation of HSF1 is required for an acute transcriptional response during heat shock

H Zhang, S Shao, Y Zeng, X Wang, Y Qin, Q Ren… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heat-shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) orchestrates the fast and vast cellular response to
heat shock through increased expression of heat-shock proteins. However, how HSF1 …

RNA polymerase II clustering through carboxy-terminal domain phase separation

M Boehning, C Dugast-Darzacq, M Rankovic… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
The carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase (Pol) II is an intrinsically disordered
low-complexity region that is critical for pre-mRNA transcription and processing. The CTD …

Tau protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer's disease

B Eftekharzadeh, JG Daigle, LE Kapinos, A Coyne… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Tau is the major constituent of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the
mechanism underlying tau-associated neural damage remains unclear. Here, we show that …

Multiple sclerosis and myelin basic protein: Insights into protein disorder and disease

V Martinsen, P Kursula - Amino Acids, 2022 - Springer
Myelin basic protein (MBP) is an abundant protein in central nervous system (CNS) myelin.
MBP has long been studied as a factor in the pathogenesis of the autoimmune …

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 …

Introducing protein intrinsic disorder

J Habchi, P Tompa, S Longhi, VN Uversky - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Proteins are the major component of the living cell. They play crucial roles in the
maintenance of life, and their dysfunctions are known to cause different pathologies. One of …

[HTML][HTML] Local nucleation of microtubule bundles through tubulin concentration into a condensed tau phase

A Hernández-Vega, M Braun, L Scharrel, M Jahnel… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Non-centrosomal microtubule bundles play important roles in cellular organization and
function. Although many diverse proteins are known that can bundle microtubules …