The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

DJ Rigden, XM Fernández - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 185 papers, including
87 papers reporting on new databases and 85 updates from resources previously published …

SLiMAn 2.0: meaningful navigation through peptide-protein interaction networks

V Reys, JL Pons, G Labesse - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Among the myriad of protein–protein interactions occurring in living organisms, a substantial
amount involves small linear motifs (SLiMs) recognized by structured domains. However …

Enhanced protein-protein interaction discovery via AlphaFold-Multimer

AR Kim, Y Hu, A Comjean, J Rodiger, SE Mohr… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Accurately mapping protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is critical for elucidating cellular
functions and has significant implications for health and disease. Conventional experimental …

Linear motifs regulating protein secretion, sorting and autophagy in Leishmania parasites are diverged with respect to their host equivalents

A Zeke, TJ Gibson, L Dobson - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The pathogenic, tropical Leishmania flagellates belong to an early-branching eukaryotic
lineage (Kinetoplastida) with several unique features. Unfortunately, they are poorly …

Brucella NpeA is a secreted Type IV effector containing an N-WASP-binding short linear motif that promotes niche formation

A Giménez, MG Del Giudice, PV López, F Guaimas… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The modulation of actin polymerization is a common theme among microbial pathogens.
Even though microorganisms show a wide repertoire of strategies to subvert the activity of …

Best practices for the manual curation of intrinsically disordered proteins in DisProt

F Quaglia, A Chasapi, MV Nugnes, MC Aspromonte… - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The DisProt database is a resource containing manually curated data on experimentally
validated intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) …

Fast and scalable querying of eukaryotic linear motifs with gget elm

L Luebbert, C Hoang, M Kumar, L Pachter - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation Eukaryotic linear motifs (ELMs), or Short Linear Motifs, are protein
interaction modules that play an essential role in cellular processes and signaling networks …

Intrinsic Disorder in the Host Proteins Entrapped in Rabies Virus Particles

HN Ashraf, VN Uversky - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
A proteomics analysis of purified rabies virus (RABV) revealed 47 entrapped host proteins
within the viral particles. Out of these, 11 proteins were highly disordered. Our study was …

The substrate quality of CK2 target sites has a determinant role on their function and evolution

D Bradley, C Garand, H Belda, I Gagnon-Arsenault… - Cell Systems, 2024 - cell.com
Most biological processes are regulated by signaling modules that bind to short linear
motifs. For protein kinases, substrates may have full or only partial matches to the kinase …

Structured Tandem Repeats in Protein Interactions

J Mac Donagh, A Marchesini, A Spiga… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Tandem repeats (TRs) in protein sequences are consecutive, highly similar sequence
motifs. Some types of TRs fold into structural units that pack together in ensembles, forming …