Intrinsically disordered proteins: an overview

R Trivedi, HA Nagarajaram - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many proteins and protein segments cannot attain a single stable three-dimensional
structure under physiological conditions; instead, they adopt multiple interconverting …

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 …

Evolutionary origins and interactomes of human, young microproteins and small peptides translated from short open reading frames

CL Sandmann, JF Schulz, J Ruiz-Orera, M Kirchner… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
All species continuously evolve short open reading frames (sORFs) that can be templated
for protein synthesis and may provide raw materials for evolutionary adaptation. We …

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 …

A deep-learning framework for multi-level peptide–protein interaction prediction

Y Lei, S Li, Z Liu, F Wan, T Tian, S Li, D Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Peptide-protein interactions are involved in various fundamental cellular functions and their
identification is crucial for designing efficacious peptide therapeutics. Recently, a number of …

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 …

Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

A Borgia, MB Borgia, K Bugge, VM Kissling… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Molecular communication in biology is mediated by protein interactions. According to the
current paradigm, the specificity and affinity required for these interactions are encoded in …

Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness

TM Franzmann, M Jahnel, A Pozniakovsky, J Mahamid… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The formation of dynamic, membraneless compartments using intracellular
phase transitions such as phase separation and gelation provides an efficient way for cells …

Phase-separation mechanism for C-terminal hyperphosphorylation of RNA polymerase II

H Lu, D Yu, AS Hansen, S Ganguly, R Liu, A Heckert… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Hyperphosphorylation of the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the RPB1 subunit of human RNA
polymerase (Pol) II is essential for transcriptional elongation and mRNA processing,–. The …

De novo birth of functional microproteins in the human lineage

N Vakirlis, Z Vance, KM Duggan, A McLysaght - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Small open reading frames (sORFs) can encode functional" microproteins" that perform
crucial biological tasks. However, their size makes them less amenable to genomic analysis …