[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

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 …

IUPred2A: context-dependent prediction of protein disorder as a function of redox state and protein binding

B Mészáros, G Erdős, Z Dosztányi - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The structural states of proteins include ordered globular domains as well as intrinsically
disordered protein regions that exist as highly flexible conformational ensembles in …

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 …

Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separation

RMC Vernon, PA Chong, B Tsang, TH Kim, A Bah… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Protein phase separation is implicated in formation of membraneless organelles, signaling
puncta and the nuclear pore. Multivalent interactions of modular binding domains and their …

NetSurfP‐2.0: Improved prediction of protein structural features by integrated deep learning

MS Klausen, MC Jespersen, H Nielsen… - Proteins: Structure …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to predict local structural features of a protein from the primary sequence is of
paramount importance for unraveling its function in absence of experimental structural …

MobiDB: intrinsically disordered proteins in 2021

D Piovesan, M Necci, N Escobedo… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb. org/) provides predictions and annotations for
intrinsically disordered proteins. Here, we report recent developments implemented in …

ELM—the eukaryotic linear motif resource in 2020

M Kumar, M Gouw, S Michael… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Studies on the DNA-binding properties of transcription factors are important in searching for
the downstream genes regulated by these factors. In the present study, we report on the …

Analyzing protein disorder with IUPred2A

G Erdős, Z Dosztányi - Current protocols in bioinformatics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
IUPred2A is a combined prediction tool designed to discover intrinsically disordered or
conditionally disordered proteins and protein regions. Intrinsically disordered regions exist …

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 …