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 …

E3 ligase ligand chemistries: from building blocks to protein degraders

I Sosič, A Bricelj, C Steinebach - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), capable of achieving targeted
protein degradation, have proven their great therapeutic potential and usefulness as …

flDPnn: Accurate intrinsic disorder prediction with putative propensities of disorder functions

G Hu, A Katuwawala, K Wang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Identification of intrinsic disorder in proteins relies in large part on computational predictors,
which demands that their accuracy should be high. Since intrinsic disorder carries out a …

AlphaFold illuminates half of the dark human proteins

JL Binder, J Berendzen, AO Stevens, Y He… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the use of confidence scores to evaluate the accuracy of a given AlphaFold
(AF2) protein model for drug discovery. Prediction of accuracy is improved by not …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates as drug targets

M Biesaga, M Frigolé-Vivas, X Salvatella - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered domains represent attractive therapeutic targets because they play
key roles in cancer, as well as in neurodegenerative and infectious diseases. They are …

DisProt in 2022: improved quality and accessibility of protein intrinsic disorder annotation

F Quaglia, B Mészáros, E Salladini, A Hatos… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Database of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (DisProt, URL: https://disprot. org)
is the major repository of manually curated annotations of intrinsically disordered proteins …

NUPR1 inhibitor ZZW-115 induces ferroptosis in a mitochondria-dependent manner

C Huang, P Santofimia-Castaño, X Liu, Y Xia… - Cell death …, 2021 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent cell death characterized by the accumulation of
hydroperoxided phospholipids. Here, we report that the NUPR1 inhibitor ZZW-115 induces …

Targeting key proteins involved in transcriptional regulation for cancer therapy: Current strategies and future prospective

H Pei, W Guo, Y Peng, H Xiong… - Medicinal Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The key proteins involved in transcriptional regulation play convergent roles in cellular
homeostasis, and their dysfunction mediates aberrant gene expressions that underline the …

Deep learning in prediction of intrinsic disorder in proteins

B Zhao, L Kurgan - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Intrinsic disorder prediction is an active area that has developed over 100 predictors. We
identify and investigate a recent trend towards the development of deep neural network …

Rational drug design targeting intrinsically disordered proteins

H Wang, R Xiong, L Lai - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that perform important biological
functions without well‐defined structures under physiological conditions. IDPs can form …