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 …

Control of protein stability by post-translational modifications

JM Lee, HM Hammarén, MM Savitski… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) can occur on specific amino acids localized within
regulatory domains of target proteins, which control a protein's stability. These regions …

[HTML][HTML] mTOR substrate phosphorylation in growth control

S Battaglioni, D Benjamin, M Wälchli, T Maier, MN Hall - Cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
The target of rapamycin (TOR), discovered 30 years ago, is a highly conserved
serine/threonine protein kinase that plays a central role in regulating cell growth and …

Biomolecular phase separation: from molecular driving forces to macroscopic properties

GL Dignon, RB Best, J Mittal - Annual review of physical …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Biological phase separation is known to be important for cellular organization, which has
recently been extended to a new class of biomolecules that form liquid-like droplets …

The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance

L Fabbri, A Chakraborty, C Robert, S Vagner - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021‏ - nature.com
Translational control of mRNAs during gene expression allows cells to promptly and
dynamically adapt to a variety of stimuli, including in neoplasia in response to aberrant …

Mass-spectrometry-based draft of the Arabidopsis proteome

J Mergner, M Frejno, M List, M Papacek, X Chen… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Plants are essential for life and are extremely diverse organisms with unique molecular
capabilities. Here we present a quantitative atlas of the transcriptomes, proteomes and …

Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2

TR Alderson, I Pritišanac, Đ Kolarić, AM Moses… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database contains predicted structures for millions of
proteins. For the majority of human proteins that contain intrinsically disordered regions …

Electrostatic interactions in protein structure, folding, binding, and condensation

HX Zhou, X Pang - Chemical reviews, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Charged and polar groups, through forming ion pairs, hydrogen bonds, and other less
specific electrostatic interactions, impart important properties to proteins. Modulation of the …

MobiDB: intrinsically disordered proteins in 2021

D Piovesan, M Necci, N Escobedo… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb. org/) provides predictions and annotations for
intrinsically disordered proteins. Here, we report recent developments implemented in …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …