Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins

R Van Der Lee, M Buljan, B Lang, RJ Weatheritt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have observed a massive increase in the amount of information
describing protein sequences from a variety of organisms. 1, 2 While this may reflect the …

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 …

AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics

HB Guo, A Perminov, S Bekele, G Kedziora… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract AlphaFold 2 (AF2) has placed Molecular Biology in a new era where we can
visualize, analyze and interpret the structures and functions of all proteins solely from their …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions

CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions fail to form a stable structure, yet
they exhibit biological activities. Their mobile flexibility and structural instability are encoded …

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 …

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 …

Liquid–liquid phase separation by intrinsically disordered protein regions of viruses: Roles in viral life cycle and control of virus–host interactions

S Brocca, R Grandori, S Longhi, V Uversky - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unable to adopt a unique 3D structure under
physiological conditions and thus exist as highly dynamic conformational ensembles. IDPs …

Novel machine learning approaches revolutionize protein knowledge

N Bordin, C Dallago, M Heinzinger, S Kim… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Breakthrough methods in machine learning (ML), protein structure prediction, and novel
ultrafast structural aligners are revolutionizing structural biology. Obtaining accurate models …

A decade and a half of protein intrinsic disorder: biology still waits for physics

VN Uversky - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The abundant existence of proteins and regions that possess specific functions without
being uniquely folded into unique 3D structures has become accepted by a significant …