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 …

Intrinsically disordered protein regions and phase separation: sequence determinants of assembly or lack thereof.

EW Martin, AS Holehouse - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2020 - europepmc.org
Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs)-regions that do not fold into a fixed three-
dimensional structure but instead exist in a heterogeneous ensemble of conformations-have …

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 …

Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome

G Tesei, AI Trolle, N Jonsson, J Betz, FE Knudsen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (collectively, IDRs) are pervasive across
proteomes in all kingdoms of life, help to shape biological functions and are involved in …

Intrinsically disordered regions are poised to act as sensors of cellular chemistry

D Moses, GM Ginell, AS Holehouse… - Trends in biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDRs) are abundant in eukaryotic
proteomes and play a wide variety of essential roles. Instead of folding into a stable …

The material properties of a bacterial-derived biomolecular condensate tune biological function in natural and synthetic systems

K Lasker, S Boeynaems, V Lam, D Scholl… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intracellular phase separation is emerging as a universal principle for organizing
biochemical reactions in time and space. It remains incompletely resolved how biological …

Molecular and environmental determinants of biomolecular condensate formation

JA Villegas, M Heidenreich, ED Levy - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensate formation has been implicated in a host of biological processes
and has found relevance in biology and disease. Understanding the physical principles and …

Clustering of aromatic residues in prion-like domains can tune the formation, state, and organization of biomolecular condensates: published as part of the …

AS Holehouse, GM Ginell, D Griffith, E Boke - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
In immature oocytes, Balbiani bodies are conserved membraneless condensates implicated
in oocyte polarization, the organization of mitochondria, and long-term organelle and RNA …

Interactions by disorder–a matter of context

K Bugge, I Brakti, CB Fernandes, JE Dreier… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Living organisms depend on timely and organized interactions between proteins linked in
interactomes of high complexity. The recent increased precision by which protein …

Direct prediction of intrinsically disordered protein conformational properties from sequence

JM Lotthammer, GM Ginell, D Griffith, R Emenecker… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous across all domains of life and play a
range of functional roles. While folded domains are generally well-described by a stable 3D …