Protein ensembles: how does nature harness thermodynamic fluctuations for life? The diverse functional roles of conformational ensembles in the cell

G Wei, W Xi, R Nussinov, B Ma - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
All soluble proteins populate conformational ensembles that together constitute the native
state. Their fluctuations in water are intrinsic thermodynamic phenomena, and the …

Super-resolution microscopy: from single molecules to supramolecular assemblies

AM Sydor, KJ Czymmek, EM Puchner, V Mennella - Trends in cell biology, 2015 - cell.com
Super-resolution microscopy (SRM) methods have allowed scientists to exceed the
diffraction limit of light, enabling the discovery and investigation of cellular structures at the …

From sequence and forces to structure, function, and evolution of intrinsically disordered proteins

JD Forman-Kay, T Mittag - Structure, 2013 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), which lack persistent structure, are a challenge to
structural biology due to the inapplicability of standard methods for characterization of folded …

The interface of protein structure, protein biophysics, and molecular evolution

DA Liberles, SA Teichmann, I Bahar, U Bastolla… - Protein …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The interface of protein structural biology, protein biophysics, molecular evolution,
and molecular population genetics forms the foundations for a mechanistic understanding of …

Selection maintains signaling function of a highly diverged intrinsically disordered region

T Zarin, CN Tsai, AN Nguyen Ba… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are characterized by their lack of stable secondary or
tertiary structure and comprise a large part of the eukaryotic proteome. Although these …

Biophysical and quantitative principles of centrosome biogenesis and structure

S Gomes Pereira, MA Dias Louro… - Annual review of cell …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The centrosome is a main orchestrator of the animal cellular microtubule cytoskeleton.
Dissecting its structure and assembly mechanisms has been a goal of cell biologists for over …

Intrinsic disorder in protein domains contributes to both organism complexity and clade-specific functions

C Gao, C Ma, H Wang, H Zhong, J Zang, R Zhong… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Interestingly, some protein domains are intrinsically disordered (abbreviated as IDD), and
the disorder degree of same domains may differ in different contexts. However, the …

Pipeline to identify hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins

KL Johnson, AM Cassin, A Lonsdale, A Bacic… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are functional proteins that lack a well-defined three-
dimensional structure. The study of IDPs is a rapidly growing area as the crucial biological …

Evidence for a strong correlation between transcription factor protein disorder and organismic complexity

I Yruela, CJ Oldfield, KJ Niklas… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Studies of diverse phylogenetic lineages reveal that protein disorder increases in concert
with organismic complexity but that differences nevertheless exist among lineages. To gain …

New insights into the centrosome‐associated spliceosome components as regulators of ciliogenesis and tissue identity

J Busselez, RE Uzbekov, B Franco… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular condensates are membrane‐less assemblies of proteins and nucleic acids.
Centrosomes are biomolecular condensates that play a crucial role in nuclear division …