Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

Biological importance of arginine: A comprehensive review of the roles in structure, disorder, and functionality of peptides and proteins

MN Gupta, VN Uversky - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Arginine shows Jekyll and Hyde behavior in several respects. It participates in
protein folding via ionic and H-bonds and cation-pi interactions; the charge and …

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 …

Cell-wide analysis of protein thermal unfolding reveals determinants of thermostability

P Leuenberger, S Ganscha, A Kahraman, V Cappelletti… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Temperature is crucially important to life. Small temperature changes can
differentiate optimal and lethal growth conditions of living organisms. Because of the higher …

Introducing protein intrinsic disorder

J Habchi, P Tompa, S Longhi, VN Uversky - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Proteins are the major component of the living cell. They play crucial roles in the
maintenance of life, and their dysfunctions are known to cause different pathologies. One of …

Liquid–liquid phase separation as an organizing principle of intracellular space: Overview of the evolution of the cell compartmentalization concept

IA Antifeeva, AV Fonin, AS Fefilova… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
At the turn of the twenty-first century, fundamental changes took place in the understanding
of the structure and function of proteins and then in the appreciation of the intracellular …

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 …

Unusual biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins

VN Uversky - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Research of a past decade and a half leaves no doubt that complete understanding of
protein functionality requires close consideration of the fact that many functional proteins do …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: critical components of the wetware

P Kulkarni, S Bhattacharya, S Achuthan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite the wealth of knowledge gained about intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) since
their discovery, there are several aspects that remain unexplored and, hence, poorly …

Orderly order in protein intrinsic disorder distribution: disorder in 3500 proteomes from viruses and the three domains of life

B Xue, AK Dunker, VN Uversky - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions are highly
abundant in nature. However, the quantitative and qualitative measures of protein intrinsic …