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 …

Intrinsically disordered regions are poised to act as sensors of cellular chemistry

D Moses, GM Ginell, AS Holehouse… - Trends in biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDRs) are abundant in eukaryotic
proteomes and play a wide variety of essential roles. Instead of folding into a stable …

An inherent difference between serine and threonine phosphorylation: phosphothreonine strongly prefers a highly ordered, compact, cyclic conformation

AK Pandey, HK Ganguly, SK Sinha… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins by kinases and phosphatases are
central to cellular responses and function. The structural effects of serine and threonine …

Osteopontin in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic targets

Y Kariya, Y Kariya - International Journal of Translational Medicine, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite significant advances in the understanding of cancer biology, cancer is still a leading
cause of death worldwide. Expression of the tumor microenvironment component …

Milk osteopontin and human health

ES Sørensen, B Christensen - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Osteopontin (OPN) is a multifunctional protein found in all vertebrates. OPN is expressed in
many different cell types, and is consequently found in most tissues and physiological …

Osteopontin: a bone-derived protein involved in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis immunopathology

BT Martín-Márquez, F Sandoval-García… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Osteopontin (OPN) is a bone-derived phosphoglycoprotein related to physiological and
pathological mechanisms that nowadays has gained relevance due to its role in the immune …

Thrombin cleavage of osteopontin and the host anti-tumor immune response

LL Leung, T Myles, J Morser - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Osteopontin (OPN) is a protein produced by immune cells, as well as
many other cell types including tumor cells, that is highly modified with sugars and …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatics and computational analyses of kidney stone modulatory proteins lead to solid experimental evidence and therapeutic potential

S Yoodee, V Thongboonkerd - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent biomedical research, bioinformatics and computational analyses have played
essential roles for examining experimental findings and database information. Several …

Arthritis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: The role of chondroitin sulfate and its associated proteoglycans in disease pathology and as a diagnostic marker

ML Maciej-Hulme, J Melrose… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Chondroitin sulfate (CS) is a ubiquitous glycosaminoglycan covalently attached to the core
proteins of cell surface, extracellular, and intracellular proteoglycans. The multistep and …

Nanopore stochastic sensing based on non-covalent interactions

X Chen, Y Zhang, P Arora, X Guan - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
A variety of species could be detected by using nanopores engineered with various
recognition sites based upon non-covalent interactions, including electrostatic, aromatic …