Vital for viruses: intrinsically disordered proteins

HJ Dyson - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses infect all kingdoms of life; their genomes vary from DNA to RNA and in size from 2kB
to 1 MB or more. Viruses frequently employ disordered proteins, that is, protein products of …

Genetic engineering and genome editing in plants, animals and humans: Facts and myths

M Platani, O Sokefun, E Bassil, Y Apidianakis - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
Human history is inextricably linked to the introduction of desirable heritable traits in plants
and animals. Selective breeding (SB) predates our historical period and has been practiced …

HDAC activity is dispensable for repression of cell-cycle genes by DREAM and E2F: RB complexes

AK Barrett, MR Shingare, A Rechtsteiner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) play a crucial role in transcriptional regulation and are
implicated in various diseases, including cancer. They are involved in histone tail …

Disordered clock protein interactions and charge blocks turn an hourglass into a persistent circadian oscillator

MS Jankowski, D Griffith, DG Shastry, JF Pelham… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Organismal physiology is widely regulated by the molecular circadian clock, a feedback loop
composed of protein complexes whose members are enriched in intrinsically disordered …

Evolution of SLiM-mediated hijack functions in intrinsically disordered viral proteins

J Glavina, N Palopoli, LB Chemes - Essays in Biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Viruses and their hosts are involved in an 'arms race'where they continually evolve
mechanisms to overcome each other. It has long been proposed that intrinsic disorder …

Crystal structure of the tegument protein UL82 (pp71) from human cytomegalovirus

J Eberhage, IP Bresch, R Ramani, N Viohl… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is an opportunistic pathogen that infects a majority of the
world population. It may cause severe disease in immunocompromised people and lead to …

[HTML][HTML] HPV-18 E7 interacts with Elk-1 leading to elevation of the transcriptional activity of Elk-1 in cervical cancer

SH Go, SB Rho, DW Yang, BR Kim… - Biomolecules & …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The human papillomavirus (HPV)-18 E7 (E7) oncoprotein is a major transforming
protein that is thought to be involved in the development of cervical cancer. It is well-known …

Structural and functional analysis of cancer-associated missense variants in the retinoblastoma protein (Rb) pocket domain

A Castro, A Ruiz-Rivera, CC Moorman, ER Wolf-Saxon… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor (Rb) is a multifunctional protein that primarily
regulates the cell cycle but also has roles in cellular differentiation, DNA damage response …