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 …

Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

A brief guideline for studies of phase-separated biomolecular condensates

Y Gao, X Li, P Li, Y Lin - Nature Chemical Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Cells are exquisitely compartmentalized to achieve precise spatiotemporal regulation of
myriad processes and pathways. Phase separation offers one way to achieve territorial …

Rescaling protein-protein interactions improves Martini 3 for flexible proteins in solution

FE Thomasen, T Skaalum, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multidomain proteins with flexible linkers and disordered regions play important roles in
many cellular processes, but characterizing their conformational ensembles is difficult. We …

Improved predictions of phase behaviour of intrinsically disordered proteins by tuning the interaction range

G Tesei, K Lindorff-Larsen - Open Research Europe, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The formation and viscoelastic properties of condensates of intrinsically disordered proteins
(IDPs) is dictated by amino acid sequence and solution conditions. Because of the …

Simulation of FUS protein condensates with an adapted coarse-grained model

Z Benayad, S von Bulow, LS Stelzl… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Disordered proteins and nucleic acids can condense into droplets that resemble the
membraneless organelles observed in living cells. MD simulations offer a unique tool to …

A multi-step nucleation process determines the kinetics of prion-like domain phase separation

EW Martin, TS Harmon, JB Hopkins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compartmentalization by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has emerged as a
ubiquitous mechanism underlying the organization of biomolecules in space and time. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspot mutations in the structured ENL YEATS domain link aberrant transcriptional condensates and cancer

L Song, X Yao, H Li, B Peng, AP Boka, Y Liu, G Chen… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Growing evidence suggests prevalence of transcriptional condensates on chromatin, yet
their mechanisms of formation and functional significance remain largely unclear. In human …

Tau interactome and RNA binding proteins in neurodegenerative diseases

T Kavanagh, A Halder, E Drummond - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Pathological tau aggregation is a primary neuropathological feature of many
neurodegenerative diseases. Intriguingly, despite the common presence of tau aggregates …

Disease‐linked TDP‐43 hyperphosphorylation suppresses TDP‐43 condensation and aggregation

LA Gruijs da Silva, F Simonetti, S Hutten… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) have emerged as key modulators of protein phase
separation and have been linked to protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disorders …