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 …

Ferritin self-assembly, structure, function, and biotechnological applications

VV Sudarev, SM Dolotova, SM Bukhalovich… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferritin is a vital protein complex responsible for storing iron in almost all living organisms. It
plays a crucial role in various metabolic pathways, inflammation processes, stress response …

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 …

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 …

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 …

An m6A-YTH Module Controls Developmental Timing and Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis

L Arribas-Hernández, S Bressendorff… - The Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Methylation of N6-adenosine (m6A) in mRNA is an important posttranscriptional gene
regulatory mechanism in eukaryotes. m6A provides a binding site for effector proteins …

PhaSepDB: a database of liquid–liquid phase separation related proteins

K You, Q Huang, C Yu, B Shen, C Sevilla… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
It's widely appreciated that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) underlies the formation of
membraneless organelles, which function to concentrate proteins and nucleic acids. In the …

Improving protein disorder prediction by deep bidirectional long short-term memory recurrent neural networks

J Hanson, Y Yang, K Paliwal, Y Zhou - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Capturing long-range interactions between structural but not sequence neighbors
of proteins is a long-standing challenging problem in bioinformatics. Recently, long short …

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 …