Binding cavities and druggability of intrinsically disordered proteins

Y Zhang, H Cao, Z Liu - Protein science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To assess the potential of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) as drug design targets, we
have analyzed the ligand‐binding cavities of two datasets of IDPs (containing 37 and 16 …

Conservation of potentially druggable cavities in intrinsically disordered proteins

B Chong, M Li, T Li, M Yu, Y Zhang, Z Liu - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) exist in highly dynamic conformational ensembles,
which pose a major obstacle for drug development targeting IDPs because traditional …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: targets for the future?

VN Uversky - Structural Biology in Drug Discovery: Methods …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Various studies have revealed that important biological functions of many proteins do not
require stable well‐defined structure in solution, with many functions originating from the …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and novel strategies for drug discovery

VN Uversky - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: There is a natural abundance of intrinsically disordered proteins or intrinsically
disordered protein regions (IDPs or IDPRs), that is, biologically active proteins/regions …

Ligand clouds around protein clouds: a scenario of ligand binding with intrinsically disordered proteins

F Jin, C Yu, L Lai, Z Liu - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) were found to be widely associated with human
diseases and may serve as potential drug design targets. However, drug design targeting …

Experimental methods to study intrinsically disordered proteins

N Nag, PB Chetri, VN Uversky, R Giri… - Advances in protein …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although under physiological conditions, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) fail to form a
definite 3D structure and instead exist as ensembles of conformations, they perform critical …

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 …

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 …

Transient secondary structures as general target-binding motifs in intrinsically disordered proteins

DH Kim, KH Han - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unorthodox proteins that do not form three-
dimensional structures under non-denaturing conditions, but perform important biological …

[图书][B] Structure and function of intrinsically disordered proteins

P Tompa, A Fersht - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
The existence and functioning of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) challenge the
classical structure-function paradigm that equates function with a well-defined 3D structure …