Conformational dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins regulate biomolecular condensate chemistry

A Abyzov, M Blackledge, M Zweckstetter - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Motions in biomolecules are critical for biochemical reactions. In cells, many biochemical
reactions are executed inside of biomolecular condensates formed by ultradynamic …

NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why
malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional …

Analyzing protein disorder with IUPred2A

G Erdős, Z Dosztányi - Current protocols in bioinformatics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
IUPred2A is a combined prediction tool designed to discover intrinsically disordered or
conditionally disordered proteins and protein regions. Intrinsically disordered regions exist …

Generic nature of the condensed states of proteins

M Fuxreiter, M Vendruscolo - Nature cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Proteins undergoing liquid–liquid phase separation are being discovered at an increasing
rate. Since at the high concentrations present in the cell most proteins would be expected to …

PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins

T Lazar, E Martínez-Pérez, F Quaglia… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Protein Ensemble Database (PED)(https://proteinensemble. org), which holds
structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), has been significantly …

Fuzziness and frustration in the energy landscape of protein folding, function, and assembly

S Gianni, MI Freiberger, P Jemth… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Are all protein interactions fully optimized? Do suboptimal interactions
compromise specificity? What is the functional impact of frustration? Why does evolution not …

NMR illuminates intrinsic disorder

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has long been instrumental in the characterization of
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). This …

Unveiling invisible protein states with NMR spectroscopy

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sparsely populated protein states can play significant biological roles.•NMR
spectroscopy can structurally and dynamically characterize 'invisible'protein states.•We …

Gcn4-mediator specificity is mediated by a large and dynamic fuzzy protein-protein complex

LM Tuttle, D Pacheco, L Warfield, J Luo, J Ranish… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Transcription activation domains (ADs) are inherently disordered proteins that often target
multiple coactivator complexes, but the specificity of these interactions is not understood …

Quantitative description of intrinsically disordered proteins using single-molecule FRET, NMR, and SAXS

S Naudi-Fabra, M Tengo, MR Jensen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Studying the conformational landscape of intrinsically disordered and partially folded
proteins is challenging and only accessible to a few solution state techniques, such as …