[HTML][HTML] Phase separation and neurodegenerative diseases: a disturbance in the force

A Zbinden, M Pérez-Berlanga, P De Rossi… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Protein aggregation is the main hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Many proteins
found in pathological inclusions are known to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation, a …

Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins

R Van Der Lee, M Buljan, B Lang, RJ Weatheritt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have observed a massive increase in the amount of information
describing protein sequences from a variety of organisms. 1, 2 While this may reflect the …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions

CJ Oldfield, AK Dunker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions fail to form a stable structure, yet
they exhibit biological activities. Their mobile flexibility and structural instability are encoded …

What macromolecular crowding can do to a protein

IM Kuznetsova, KK Turoverov, VN Uversky - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The intracellular environment represents an extremely crowded milieu, with a limited amount
of free water and an almost complete lack of unoccupied space. Obviously, slightly salted …

Intrinsic disorder and posttranslational modifications: the darker side of the biological dark matter

AL Darling, VN Uversky - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs)
are functional proteins and domains that devoid stable secondary and/or tertiary structure …

Biological importance of arginine: A comprehensive review of the roles in structure, disorder, and functionality of peptides and proteins

MN Gupta, VN Uversky - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Arginine shows Jekyll and Hyde behavior in several respects. It participates in
protein folding via ionic and H-bonds and cation-pi interactions; the charge and …

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 …

Understanding protein non-folding

VN Uversky, AK Dunker - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review describes the family of intrinsically disordered proteins, members of which fail to
form rigid 3-D structures under physiological conditions, either along their entire lengths or …

Orderly order in protein intrinsic disorder distribution: disorder in 3500 proteomes from viruses and the three domains of life

B Xue, AK Dunker, VN Uversky - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions are highly
abundant in nature. However, the quantitative and qualitative measures of protein intrinsic …

A decade and a half of protein intrinsic disorder: biology still waits for physics

VN Uversky - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The abundant existence of proteins and regions that possess specific functions without
being uniquely folded into unique 3D structures has become accepted by a significant …