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 …

PRKN-linked familial Parkinson's disease: cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease-linked variants

L Clausen, J Okarmus, V Voutsinos, M Meyer… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and incurable neurodegenerative disorder that
arises from the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and is mainly …

UPS-dependent strategies of protein quality control degradation

L Müller, T Hoppe - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The degradation of damaged proteins is critical for tissue integrity and organismal health
because damaged proteins have a high propensity to form aggregates. E3 ubiquitin ligases …

A mutational atlas for Parkin proteostasis

L Clausen, V Voutsinos, M Cagiada… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Proteostasis can be disturbed by mutations affecting folding and stability of the encoded
protein. An example is the ubiquitin ligase Parkin, where gene variants result in autosomal …

Deep mutational scanning reveals a correlation between degradation and toxicity of thousands of aspartoacylase variants

M Grønbæk-Thygesen, V Voutsinos… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Unstable proteins are prone to form non-native interactions with other proteins and thereby
may become toxic. To mitigate this, destabilized proteins are targeted by the protein quality …

Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome: Bridging chain compaction with function and sequence conservation

G Tesei, AI Trolle, N Jonsson, J Betz, F Pesce… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (collectively IDRs) are pervasive across
proteomes in all kingdoms of life, help shape biological functions, and are involved in …

Disease-linked mutations cause exposure of a protein quality control degron

C Kampmeyer, S Larsen-Ledet, MR Wagnkilde… - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
More than half of disease-causing missense variants are thought to lead to protein
degradation, but the molecular mechanism of how these variants are recognized by the cell …

HSP70-binding motifs function as protein quality control degrons

AB Abildgaard, V Voutsinos, SD Petersen… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Protein quality control (PQC) degrons are short protein segments that target misfolded
proteins for proteasomal degradation, and thus protect cells against the accumulation of …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of quality-control degradation signals in yeast proteins

KE Johansson, B Mashahreh… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective proteome homeostasis is key to cellular and organismal survival, and cells
therefore contain efficient quality control systems to monitor and remove potentially toxic …

[HTML][HTML] C-terminal sequence stability profiling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals protective protein quality control pathways

S Hasenjäger, A Bologna, LO Essen… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein quality control (PQC) mechanisms are essential for degradation of misfolded or
dysfunctional proteins. An essential part of protein homeostasis is recognition of defective …