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 …

Understanding protein non-folding

VN Uversky, AK Dunker - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review describes the family of intrinsically disordered proteins, members of which fail to
form rigid 3-D structures under physiological conditions, either along their entire lengths or …

Modeling aspects of the language of life through transfer-learning protein sequences

M Heinzinger, A Elnaggar, Y Wang, C Dallago… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background Predicting protein function and structure from sequence is one important
challenge for computational biology. For 26 years, most state-of-the-art approaches …

PONDR-FIT: a meta-predictor of intrinsically disordered amino acids

B Xue, RL Dunbrack, RW Williams, AK Dunker… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2010 - Elsevier
Protein intrinsic disorder is becoming increasingly recognized in proteomics research. While
lacking structure, many regions of disorder have been associated with biological function …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] WNK kinases sense molecular crowding and rescue cell volume via phase separation

CR Boyd-Shiwarski, DJ Shiwarski, SE Griffiths… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
When challenged by hypertonicity, dehydrated cells must recover their volume to survive.
This process requires the phosphorylation-dependent regulation of SLC12 cation chloride …

Length-dependent prediction of protein intrinsic disorder

K Peng, P Radivojac, S Vucetic, AK Dunker… - BMC …, 2006 - Springer
Background Due to the functional importance of intrinsically disordered proteins or protein
regions, prediction of intrinsic protein disorder from amino acid sequence has become an …

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 …

Showing your ID: intrinsic disorder as an ID for recognition, regulation and cell signaling

VN Uversky, CJ Oldfield… - Journal of Molecular …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Regulation, recognition and cell signaling involve the coordinated actions of many players.
To achieve this coordination, each participant must have a valid identification (ID) that is …

Intrinsic disorder in transcription factors

J Liu, NB Perumal, CJ Oldfield, EW Su, VN Uversky… - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
Intrinsic disorder (ID) is highly abundant in eukaryotes, which reflect the greater need for
disorder-associated signaling and transcriptional regulation in nucleated cells. Although …