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 …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsically disordered proteins: an overview

R Trivedi, HA Nagarajaram - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many proteins and protein segments cannot attain a single stable three-dimensional
structure under physiological conditions; instead, they adopt multiple interconverting …

SARS‐CoV‐2 nucleocapsid protein phase‐separates with RNA and with human hnRNPs

TM Perdikari, AC Murthy, VH Ryan, S Watters… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Tightly packed complexes of nucleocapsid protein and genomic RNA form the core of
viruses and assemble within viral factories, dynamic compartments formed within the host …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Introducing protein intrinsic disorder

J Habchi, P Tompa, S Longhi, VN Uversky - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Proteins are the major component of the living cell. They play crucial roles in the
maintenance of life, and their dysfunctions are known to cause different pathologies. One of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: a 10-year recap

P Tompa - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2012 - cell.com
The suggestion that the native state of many proteins is intrinsically disordered (or, as
originally termed, unstructured) is now integral to our general view of protein structure and …