Liquid–liquid phase separation by intrinsically disordered protein regions of viruses: Roles in viral life cycle and control of virus–host interactions

S Brocca, R Grandori, S Longhi, V Uversky - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unable to adopt a unique 3D structure under
physiological conditions and thus exist as highly dynamic conformational ensembles. IDPs …

Tutorial: a guide for the selection of fast and accurate computational tools for the prediction of intrinsic disorder in proteins

L Kurgan, G Hu, K Wang, S Ghadermarzi, B Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Intrinsic disorder is instrumental for a wide range of protein functions, and its analysis, using
computational predictions from primary structures, complements secondary and tertiary …

IUPred3: prediction of protein disorder enhanced with unambiguous experimental annotation and visualization of evolutionary conservation

G Erdős, M Pajkos, Z Dosztányi - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDPs/IDRs) exist without a single well-
defined conformation. They carry out important biological functions with multifaceted roles …

flDPnn: Accurate intrinsic disorder prediction with putative propensities of disorder functions

G Hu, A Katuwawala, K Wang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Identification of intrinsic disorder in proteins relies in large part on computational predictors,
which demands that their accuracy should be high. Since intrinsic disorder carries out a …

DEPICTER2: a comprehensive webserver for intrinsic disorder and disorder function prediction

S Basu, J Gsponer, L Kurgan - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsic disorder in proteins is relatively abundant in nature and essential for a broad
spectrum of cellular functions. While disorder can be accurately predicted from protein …

DisoLipPred: accurate prediction of disordered lipid-binding residues in protein sequences with deep recurrent networks and transfer learning

A Katuwawala, B Zhao, L Kurgan - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Intrinsically disordered protein regions interact with proteins, nucleic acids and
lipids. Regions that bind lipids are implicated in a wide spectrum of cellular functions and …

Computational prediction of disordered binding regions

S Basu, D Kihara, L Kurgan - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the key features of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) is their ability to interact
with a broad range of partner molecules. Multiple types of interacting IDRs were identified …

DescribePROT: database of amino acid-level protein structure and function predictions

B Zhao, A Katuwawala, CJ Oldfield… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present DescribePROT, the database of predicted amino acid-level descriptors of
structure and function of proteins. DescribePROT delivers a comprehensive collection of 13 …

Comparative evaluation of AlphaFold2 and disorder predictors for prediction of intrinsic disorder, disorder content and fully disordered proteins

B Zhao, S Ghadermarzi, L Kurgan - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
We expand studies of AlphaFold2 (AF2) in the context of intrinsic disorder prediction by
comparing it against a broad selection of 20 accurate, popular and recently released …

Surveying over 100 predictors of intrinsic disorder in proteins

B Zhao, L Kurgan - Expert Review of Proteomics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Intrinsic disorder prediction field develops, assesses, and deploys
computational predictors of disorder in protein sequences and constructs and disseminates …