Intrinsically disordered proteins in chronic diseases

P Kulkarni, VN Uversky - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
It is now increasingly evident that a large fraction of the human proteome comprises proteins
that, under physiological conditions, lack fixed, ordered 3D structures as a whole or have …

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Human Diseases: Introducing the D2 Concept

VN Uversky, CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack stable tertiary and/or secondary structures under
physiological conditions in vitro. They are highly abundant in nature and their functional …

Protein disorder prevails under crowded conditions

CS Szasz, A Alexa, K Toth, M Rakacs, J Langowski… - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Crowding caused by the high concentrations of macromolecules in the living cell changes
chemical equilibria, thus promoting aggregation and folding reactions of proteins. The …

Advantages of proteins being disordered

Z Liu, Y Huang - Protein Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has witnessed great advances in our understanding of protein structure‐
function relationships in terms of the ubiquitous existence of intrinsically disordered proteins …

Characterization of intrinsically disordered proteins and their dynamic complexes: From in vitro to cell-like environments

S Milles, N Salvi, M Blackledge, MR Jensen - Progress in nuclear magnetic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, it has become increasingly clear that a large fraction of the
human proteome is intrinsically disordered or contains disordered segments of significant …

Dancing protein clouds: the strange biology and chaotic physics of intrinsically disordered proteins

VN Uversky - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Biologically active but floppy proteins represent a new reality of modern protein science.
These intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and hybrid proteins containing ordered and …

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 …

Towards the physical basis of how intrinsic disorder mediates protein function

J Chen - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are an important class of functional proteins that is
highly prevalent in biology and has broad association with human diseases. In contrast to …

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 …

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 …