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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of intrinsically disordered protein function by post-translational modifications

A Bah, JD Forman-Kay - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) produce significant changes in the structural
properties of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) by affecting their energy landscapes …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] What macromolecular crowding can do to a protein

IM Kuznetsova, KK Turoverov, VN Uversky - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The intracellular environment represents an extremely crowded milieu, with a limited amount
of free water and an almost complete lack of unoccupied space. Obviously, slightly salted …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic disorder and posttranslational modifications: the darker side of the biological dark matter

AL Darling, VN Uversky - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs)
are functional proteins and domains that devoid stable secondary and/or tertiary structure …

Fuzziness and frustration in the energy landscape of protein folding, function, and assembly

S Gianni, MI Freiberger, P Jemth… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Are all protein interactions fully optimized? Do suboptimal interactions
compromise specificity? What is the functional impact of frustration? Why does evolution not …