Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

Unusual biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins

VN Uversky - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Research of a past decade and a half leaves no doubt that complete understanding of
protein functionality requires close consideration of the fact that many functional proteins do …

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 …

Why are “natively unfolded” proteins unstructured under physiologic conditions?

VN Uversky, JR Gillespie… - Proteins: structure, function …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Natively unfolded” proteins occupy a unique niche within the protein kingdom in
that they lack ordered structure under conditions of neutral pH in vitro. Analysis of amino …

Natively unfolded proteins: a point where biology waits for physics

VN Uversky - Protein science, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The experimental material accumulated in the literature on the conformational behavior of
intrinsically unstructured (natively unfolded) proteins was analyzed. Results of this analysis …

What does it mean to be natively unfolded?

VN Uversky - European journal of biochemistry, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Natively unfolded or intrinsically unstructured proteins constitute a unique group of the
protein kingdom. The evolutionary persistence of such proteins represents strong evidence …

[HTML][HTML] HRP2: transforming malaria diagnosis, but with caveats

KE Poti, DJ Sullivan, AM Dondorp, CJ Woodrow - Trends in parasitology, 2020 - cell.com
The major growth in point-of-care malaria diagnosis over the past decade has been based
on immunochromatographic malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), which generally detect …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and their environment: effects of strong denaturants, temperature, pH, counter ions, membranes, binding partners, osmolytes, and …

VN Uversky - The protein journal, 2009 - Springer
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) differ from “normal” ordered proteins at several levels,
structural, functional and conformational. Amino acid biases characteristic for IDPs …

Assessing protein disorder and induced folding

V Receveur‐Bréchot, JM Bourhis… - Proteins: Structure …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) defy the structure–function paradigm as they fulfill
essential biological functions while lacking well‐defined secondary and tertiary structures …

Haemozoin formation

TJ Egan - Molecular and biochemical parasitology, 2008 - Elsevier
Formation of malaria pigment or haemozoin is the major route of haem detoxification in the
malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum as well as several other species of …