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Zeke A, Schád É, Horváth T, Abukhairan R, Szabó B, Tantos A. Deep structural insights into RNA-binding disordered protein regions. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. RNA 2022; 13:e1714. [PMID: 35098694 PMCID: PMC9539567 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Recent efforts to identify RNA binding proteins in various organisms and cellular contexts have yielded a large collection of proteins that are capable of RNA binding in the absence of conventional RNA recognition domains. Many of the recently identified RNA interaction motifs fall into intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs). While the recognition mode and specificity of globular RNA binding elements have been thoroughly investigated and described, much less is known about the way IDRs can recognize their RNA partners. Our aim was to summarize the current state of structural knowledge on the RNA binding modes of disordered protein regions and to propose a classification system based on their sequential and structural properties. Through a detailed structural analysis of the complexes that contain disordered protein regions binding to RNA, we found two major binding modes that represent different recognition strategies and, most likely, functions. We compared these examples with DNA binding disordered proteins and found key differences stemming from the nucleic acids as well as similar binding strategies, implying a broader substrate acceptance by these proteins. Due to the very limited number of known structures, we integrated molecular dynamics simulations in our study, whose results support the proposed structural preferences of specific RNA‐binding IDRs. To broaden the scope of our review, we included a brief analysis of RNA‐binding small molecules and compared their structural characteristics and RNA recognition strategies to the RNA‐binding IDRs. This article is categorized under:RNA Structure and Dynamics > RNA Structure, Dynamics, and Chemistry RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > Protein–RNA Recognition RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > Small Molecule–RNA Interactions
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- András Zeke
- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Hanson J, Litfin T, Paliwal K, Zhou Y. Identifying molecular recognition features in intrinsically disordered regions of proteins by transfer learning. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:1107-1113. [PMID: 31504193 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Protein intrinsic disorder describes the tendency of sequence residues to not fold into a rigid three-dimensional shape by themselves. However, some of these disordered regions can transition from disorder to order when interacting with another molecule in segments known as molecular recognition features (MoRFs). Previous analysis has shown that these MoRF regions are indirectly encoded within the prediction of residue disorder as low-confidence predictions [i.e. in a semi-disordered state P(D)≈0.5]. Thus, what has been learned for disorder prediction may be transferable to MoRF prediction. Transferring the internal characterization of protein disorder for the prediction of MoRF residues would allow us to take advantage of the large training set available for disorder prediction, enabling the training of larger analytical models than is currently feasible on the small number of currently available annotated MoRF proteins. In this paper, we propose a new method for MoRF prediction by transfer learning from the SPOT-Disorder2 ensemble models built for disorder prediction. RESULTS We confirm that directly training on the MoRF set with a randomly initialized model yields substantially poorer performance on independent test sets than by using the transfer-learning-based method SPOT-MoRF, for both deep and simple networks. Its comparison to current state-of-the-art techniques reveals its superior performance in identifying MoRF binding regions in proteins across two independent testing sets, including our new dataset of >800 protein chains. These test chains share <30% sequence similarity to all training and validation proteins used in SPOT-Disorder2 and SPOT-MoRF, and provide a much-needed large-scale update on the performance of current MoRF predictors. The method is expected to be useful in locating functional disordered regions in proteins. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION SPOT-MoRF and its data are available as a web server and as a standalone program at: http://sparks-lab.org/jack/server/SPOT-MoRF/index.php. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jack Hanson
- Signal Processing Laboratory, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4122, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
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- Signal Processing Laboratory, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4122, Australia
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- Institute for Glycomics, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
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Mou C, Wang M, Pan S, Chen Z. Identification of Nuclear Localization Signals in the ORF2 Protein of Porcine Circovirus Type 3. Viruses 2019; 11:v11121086. [PMID: 31766638 PMCID: PMC6950156 DOI: 10.3390/v11121086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2019] [Revised: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) contains two major open reading frames (ORFs) and the ORF2 gene encodes the major structural capsid protein. In this study, nuclear localization of ORF2 was demonstrated by fluorescence observation and subcellular fractionation assays in ORF2-transfected PK-15 cells. The subcellular localization of truncated ORF2 indicated that the 38 N-terminal amino acids were responsible for the nuclear localization of ORF2. The truncated and site-directed mutagenesis of this domain were constructed, and the results demonstrated that the basic amino acid residues at positions 8-32 were essential for the strict nuclear localization. The basic motifs 8RRR-R-RRR16 and 16RRRHRRR22 were further shown to be the key functional nucleolar localization signals that guide PCV3 ORF2 into nucleoli. Furthermore, sequence analysis showed that the amino acids of PCV3 nuclear localization signals were highly conserved. Overall, this study provides insight into the biological and functional characteristics of the PCV3 ORF2 protein.
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- Chunxiao Mou
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (C.M.); (S.P.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (C.M.); (S.P.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (C.M.); (S.P.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (C.M.); (S.P.)
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-182-5274-7459 or +86-514-8979-8271; Fax: 0514-8797-2218
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Fonin AV, Darling AL, Kuznetsova IM, Turoverov KK, Uversky VN. Multi-functionality of proteins involved in GPCR and G protein signaling: making sense of structure-function continuum with intrinsic disorder-based proteoforms. Cell Mol Life Sci 2019; 76:4461-4492. [PMID: 31428838 PMCID: PMC11105632 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03276-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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GPCR-G protein signaling system recognizes a multitude of extracellular ligands and triggers a variety of intracellular signaling cascades in response. In humans, this system includes more than 800 various GPCRs and a large set of heterotrimeric G proteins. Complexity of this system goes far beyond a multitude of pair-wise ligand-GPCR and GPCR-G protein interactions. In fact, one GPCR can recognize more than one extracellular signal and interact with more than one G protein. Furthermore, one ligand can activate more than one GPCR, and multiple GPCRs can couple to the same G protein. This defines an intricate multifunctionality of this important signaling system. Here, we show that the multifunctionality of GPCR-G protein system represents an illustrative example of the protein structure-function continuum, where structures of the involved proteins represent a complex mosaic of differently folded regions (foldons, non-foldons, unfoldons, semi-foldons, and inducible foldons). The functionality of resulting highly dynamic conformational ensembles is fine-tuned by various post-translational modifications and alternative splicing, and such ensembles can undergo dramatic changes at interaction with their specific partners. In other words, GPCRs and G proteins exist as sets of conformational/basic, inducible/modified, and functioning proteoforms characterized by a broad spectrum of structural features and possessing various functional potentials.
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- Alexander V Fonin
- Laboratory of structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russian Federation
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Laboratory of structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russian Federation
- Department of Biophysics, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Polytechnicheskaya av. 29, St. Petersburg, 195251, Russian Federation
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
- Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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Entropy should directly reflect the extent of disorder in proteins. By clustering structurally related proteins and studying the multiple-sequence-alignment of the sequences of these clusters, we were able to link between sequence, structure, and disorder information. We introduced several parameters as measures of fluctuations at a given MSA site and used these as representative of the sequence and structure entropy at that site. In general, we found a tendency for negative correlations between disorder and structure, and significant positive correlations between disorder and the fluctuations in the system. We also found evidence for residue-type conservation for those residues proximate to potentially disordered sites. Mutation at the disorder site itself appear to be allowed. In addition, we found positive correlation for disorder and accessible surface area, validating that disordered residues occur in exposed regions of proteins. Finally, we also found that fluctuations in the dihedral angles at the original mutated residue and disorder are positively correlated while dihedral angle fluctuations in spatially proximal residues are negatively correlated with disorder. Our results seem to indicate permissible variability in the disordered site, but greater rigidity in the parts of the protein with which the disordered site interacts. This is another indication that disordered residues are involved in protein function.
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Uversky VN. Flexibility of the "rigid" classics or rugged bottom of the folding funnels of myoglobin, lysozyme, RNase A, chymotrypsin, cytochrome c, and carboxypeptidase A1. INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS 2018; 5:e1355205. [PMID: 30250772 DOI: 10.1080/21690707.2017.1355205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/08/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The abilities to crystalize of a globular protein and to solve its crystal structure seem to represent triumph of the lock-and-key model of protein functionality, where the presence of unique 3D structure resembling aperiodic crystal is considered as a prerequisite for a given protein to possess specific biologic activity. The history of protein crystallography has its roots in first crystal structures of myoglobin, lysozyme, RNase A, chymotrypsin, cytochrome c, and carboxypeptidase A1 solved more than 50 y ago. This article briefly considers extensive structural information currently available for these proteins and shows that the bottoms of their folding funnels (i.e., the lowest parts of their potential energy landscapes) are not smoothed but rugged. In other words, these crystallization classics are characterized by significant conformational flexibility and are not rigid (immobile) crystal-like entities.
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- Vladimir N Uversky
- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Health Byrd Alzheimer Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.,Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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Fadda E, Nixon MG. The transient manifold structure of the p53 extreme C-terminal domain: insight into disorder, recognition, and binding promiscuity by molecular dynamics simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:21287-21296. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp02485a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The extreme C-terminus of the p53 tumour suppressor (p53-CTD) is a 30 residue long intrinsically disordered region, responsible for regulating the p53 DNA binding activity. Extensive conformational sampling through MD simulations of a p53-CTD derived peptide in solution highlights its propensity to form short and stable secondary structure motifs, specifically localized within the sequence.
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- E. Fadda
- Department of Chemistry
- Maynooth University, and Hamilton Institute
- Maynooth University
- Maynooth
- Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry
- Maynooth University, and Hamilton Institute
- Maynooth University
- Maynooth
- Ireland
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Yacoub HA, Elazzazy AM, Mahmoud MM, Baeshen MN, Al-Maghrabi OA, Alkarim S, Ahmed ES, Almehdar HA, Uversky VN. Chicken cathelicidins as potent intrinsically disordered biocides with antimicrobial activity against infectious pathogens. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2016; 65:8-24. [PMID: 27328070 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2016.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Revised: 06/15/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This study was performed to identify the expression patterns of the cathelicidin genes in a local chicken breed and to evaluate the antimicrobial activities of the cathelicidin peptides against pathogenic bacteria. This analysis revealed that the coding regions of CATH-1, -2, and -3 genes contain 447 bp, 465 bp, and 456 bp, respectively, and encode proteins of 148, 154, 151 amino acids, respectively. The complete amino acid sequences of the cathelicidin peptides are similar to those found in Meleagris gallopavo, Phasianus colchicus, and Coturnix coturnix, and show high sequence identity to their Columba livia and Anas platyrhynchos counterparts. In contrast, these avian peptides shared a very low sequence identity with the mammalian cathelicidins. The analysis further revealed that the cathelicidin genes are expressed in various organ and tissues. We also show that the CATH peptides 1, 2, 3 and their amide-modified structures possess potent antimicrobial activities against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens, with these bacteria being affected to different extents. The antimicrobial activities of the peptides are slightly lower than those of their amide analogs. Computational analysis revealed that pre-pro-cathelicidins are hybrid proteins that contain ordered domains and functional intrinsically disordered regions. Furthermore, high structural and sequence variability of mature cathelicidins is a strong indication of their rather disordered nature. It is likely that intrinsic disorder is needed for the multifarious functionality of these antimicrobial peptides. Our analyses indicated that cathelicidin peptides require further study to better understand their full potentials in the treatment of diseases in both humans and animals. The data obtained for synthetic avian peptides will help elucidating of their potential applications in the pharmaceutical industry.
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- Haitham A Yacoub
- Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Cell Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt.
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- Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Chemistry of Natural and Microbial Products, Division of Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries, National Research Centre, Dokki, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt.
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- King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Molecular Genetics and Enzymology, Davison of Human Genetics and Genome Research, National Research Centre, Dokki, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt
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- Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Embryonic Stem Cell Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Cell Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
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p53 Proteoforms and Intrinsic Disorder: An Illustration of the Protein Structure-Function Continuum Concept. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17111874. [PMID: 27834926 PMCID: PMC5133874 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17111874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Revised: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Although it is one of the most studied proteins, p53 continues to be an enigma. This protein has numerous biological functions, possesses intrinsically disordered regions crucial for its functionality, can form both homo-tetramers and isoform-based hetero-tetramers, and is able to interact with many binding partners. It contains numerous posttranslational modifications, has several isoforms generated by alternative splicing, alternative promoter usage or alternative initiation of translation, and is commonly mutated in different cancers. Therefore, p53 serves as an important illustration of the protein structure–function continuum concept, where the generation of multiple proteoforms by various mechanisms defines the ability of this protein to have a multitude of structurally and functionally different states. Considering p53 in the light of a proteoform-based structure–function continuum represents a non-canonical and conceptually new contemplation of structure, regulation, and functionality of this important protein.
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Coskuner O. Divalent copper ion bound amyloid-β(40) and amyloid-β(42) alloforms are less preferred than divalent zinc ion bound amyloid-β(40) and amyloid-β(42) alloforms. J Biol Inorg Chem 2016; 21:957-973. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-016-1392-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Shaban H, Na I, Kislichkina AA, Dentovskaya SV, Anisimov AP, Uversky VN. Effect of natural polymorphism on structure and function of the Yersinia pestis outer membrane porin F (OmpF protein): a computational study. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2016; 35:2588-2603. [PMID: 27593697 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1224734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The Yersinia pestis outer membrane porin F (OmpF) is a transmembrane protein located in the outer membrane of this Gram-negative bacterium which is the causative agent of plague, where it plays a significant role in controlling the selective permeability of the membrane. The amino acid sequences of OmpF proteins from 48 Y. pestis strains representing all currently available phylogenetic groups of this Gram-negative bacterium were recently deduced. Comparison of these amino acid sequences revealed that the OmpF can be present in four isoforms, the pestis-pestis type, and the pestis-microtus types I, II, and III. OmpF of the most recent pestis-pestis type has an alanine residue at the position 148, where all the pestis-microtus types have threonine there (T148A polymorphism). The variability of different pestis-microtus types is caused by an additional polymorphism at the 193rd position, where the OmpFs of the pestis-microtus type II and type III have isoleucine-glycine (IG+193) or isoleucine-glycine-isoleucine-glycine (IGIG+193) insertions, respectively (IG+193 and IGIG+193 polymorphism). To investigate potential effects of these sequence polymorphisms on the structural properties of the OmpF protein, we conducted multi-level computational analysis of its isoforms. Analysis of the I-TASSER-generated 3D-models revealed that the Yersinia OmpF is very similar to other non-specific enterobacterial porins. The T148A polymorphism affected a loop located in the external vestibule of the OmpF channel, whereas IG+193 and IGIG+193 polymorphisms affected one of its β-strands. Our analysis also suggested that polymorphism has moderate effect on the predicted local intrinsic disorder predisposition of OmpF, but might have some functional implementations.
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- Hiba Shaban
- a Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine , University of South Florida , Tampa 33612 , FL , USA
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- a Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine , University of South Florida , Tampa 33612 , FL , USA
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- b State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology , Obolensk 142279 , Moscow Region , Russia
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- b State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology , Obolensk 142279 , Moscow Region , Russia
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- b State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology , Obolensk 142279 , Moscow Region , Russia
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- a Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine , University of South Florida , Tampa 33612 , FL , USA.,c USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute , Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida , Tampa 33612 , FL , USA.,d Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins , Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg 194064 , Russia
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Zhang XX, Jones KC, Fitzpatrick A, Peng CS, Feng CJ, Baiz CR, Tokmakoff A. Studying Protein-Protein Binding through T-Jump Induced Dissociation: Transient 2D IR Spectroscopy of Insulin Dimer. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:5134-45. [PMID: 27203447 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Insulin homodimer associates through the coupled folding and binding of two partially disordered monomers. We aim to understand this dynamics by observing insulin dimer dissociation initiated with a nanosecond temperature jump using transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D IR) of amide I vibrations. With the help of equilibrium FTIR and 2D IR spectra, and through a systematic study of the dependence of dissociation kinetics on temperature and insulin concentration, we are able to decompose and analyze the spectral evolution associated with different secondary structures. We find that the dissociation under all conditions is characterized by two processes whose influence on the kinetics varies with temperature: the unfolding of the β sheet at the dimer interface observed as exponential kinetics between 250 and 1000 μs and nonexponential kinetics between 5 and 150 μs that we attribute to monomer disordering. Microscopic reversibility arguments lead us to conclude that dimer association requires significant conformational changes within the monomer in concert with the folding of the interfacial β sheet. While our data indicates a more complex kinetics, we apply a two-state model to the β-sheet unfolding kinetics to extract thermodynamic parameters and kinetic rate constants. The association rate constant, ka (23 °C) = 8.8 × 10(5) M(-1) s(-1) (pH 0, 20% EtOD), is approximately 3 orders of magnitude slower than the calculated diffusion limited association rate, which is explained by the significant destabilizing effect of ethanol on the dimer state and the highly positive charge of the monomers at this pH.
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- Xin-Xing Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Kouokam Fotso GB, Bernard C, Bigault L, de Boisséson C, Mankertz A, Jestin A, Grasland B. The expression level of gC1qR is down regulated at the early time of infection with porcine circovirus of type 2 (PCV-2) and gC1qR interacts differently with the Cap proteins of porcine circoviruses. Virus Res 2016; 220:21-32. [PMID: 27063333 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Revised: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Porcine circoviruses (PCV) are small, non-enveloped single-stranded DNA-viruses. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) is the causal agent of post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) whereas porcine circovirus of type 1 (PCV-1) is non- pathogenic. gC1qR is a membrane-located receptor of the complement protein subunit C1q and interacts with PCV capsid proteins. The mechanisms associated with the triggering of PMWS are not well known and gC1qR may have a role in the life cycle and eventually in the pathogenicity of PCV. The objectives of this study were to determine the level of expression of gC1qR during early PCV-2 infection, to determine the region of PCV-2 capsid protein (Cap) required for the interaction with gC1qR and to evaluate the interaction of gC1qR with Cap proteins of different PCV strains. The results indicate that gC1qR transcripts are downregulated in the tonsils and the tracheo-bronchial lymph nodes of piglets infected by PCV-2 at the early time of the infection. The N-terminal amino acids (a.a. 1-59) of PCV-2b Cap, an arginine rich region, are involved in the interaction with gC1qR. Porcine gC1qR interacts with Cap proteins of two pathogenic viral strains, PCV-2a and PCV-2b, while interaction has been observed with only one Cap protein of two investigated strains of PCV-1. The amino acids 30 and 49 of PCV-1Cap, solely, were not responsible of the difference of interaction observed. We have also shown that gC1qR interacts strongly with PCV-2Caps and PCV-1 GER Cap. This result suggests that the different interaction of gC1qR with PCV Cap proteins may have an impact on the pathogenicity of the PCV.
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- Guy Baudry Kouokam Fotso
- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France
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- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France
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- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France
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- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France
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- Robert Koch institute, Division of viral infection, Berlin, Germany
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- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France
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- Anses, Laboratory of Ploufragan/Plouzané, Unit of viral genetic and biosafety, Ploufragan, France.
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Yacoub HA, Al-Maghrabi OA, Ahmed ES, Uversky VN. Abundance and functional roles of intrinsic disorder in the antimicrobial peptides of the NK-lysin family. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2016; 35:836-856. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1164077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Haitham A. Yacoub
- Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Cell Biology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Cell Biology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, P.O. Box 12622, Gizza, Egypt
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- Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Baronti L, Erales J, Habchi J, Felli IC, Pierattelli R, Longhi S. Dynamics of the Intrinsically Disordered C-Terminal Domain of the Nipah Virus Nucleoprotein and Interaction with the X Domain of the Phosphoprotein as Unveiled by NMR Spectroscopy. Chembiochem 2014; 16:268-76. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201402534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Xue B, Blocquel D, Habchi J, Uversky AV, Kurgan L, Uversky VN, Longhi S. Structural disorder in viral proteins. Chem Rev 2014; 114:6880-911. [PMID: 24823319 DOI: 10.1021/cr4005692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Bin Xue
- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College of Fine Arts and Sciences, and ‡Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida , Tampa, Florida 33620, United States
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Xue B, Uversky VN. Intrinsic disorder in proteins involved in the innate antiviral immunity: another flexible side of a molecular arms race. J Mol Biol 2013; 426:1322-50. [PMID: 24184279 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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We present a comprehensive bioinformatics analysis of the abundance and roles of intrinsic disorder in human proteins involved in the antiviral innate immune response. The commonness of intrinsic disorder and disorder-based binding sites is evaluated in 840 human antiviral proteins and proteins associated with innate immune response and defense response to virus. Among the mechanisms engaged in the innate immunity to viral infection are three receptor-based pathways activated by the specific recognition of various virus-associated patterns by several retinoic acid-inducible gene I-like receptors, toll-like receptors, and nucleotide oligomerization domain-like receptors. These modules are tightly regulated and intimately interconnected being jointly controlled via a complex set of protein-protein interactions. Focused analysis of the major players involved in these three pathways is performed to illustrate the roles of protein intrinsic disorder in controlling and regulating the innate antiviral immunity. We mapped the disorder into an integrated network of receptor-based pathways of human innate immunity to virus infection and demonstrate that proteins involved in regulation and execution of these innate immunity pathways possess substantial amount of intrinsic disorder. Disordered regions are engaged in a number of crucial functions, such as protein-protein interactions and interactions with other partners including nucleic acids and other ligands, and are enriched in posttranslational modification sites. Therefore, host cells use numerous advantages of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions to fight flexible invaders and viruses and to successfully overcome the viral invasion.
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- Bin Xue
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
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Mao AH, Lyle N, Pappu RV. Describing sequence-ensemble relationships for intrinsically disordered proteins. Biochem J 2013; 449:307-18. [PMID: 23240611 PMCID: PMC4074364 DOI: 10.1042/bj20121346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins participate in important protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions and control cellular phenotypes through their prominence as dynamic organizers of transcriptional, post-transcriptional and signalling networks. These proteins challenge the tenets of the structure-function paradigm and their functional mechanisms remain a mystery given that they fail to fold autonomously into specific structures. Solving this mystery requires a first principles understanding of the quantitative relationships between information encoded in the sequences of disordered proteins and the ensemble of conformations they sample. Advances in quantifying sequence-ensemble relationships have been facilitated through a four-way synergy between bioinformatics, biophysical experiments, computer simulations and polymer physics theories. In the present review we evaluate these advances and the resultant insights that allow us to develop a concise quantitative framework for describing the sequence-ensemble relationships of intrinsically disordered proteins.
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- Albert H. Mao
- Medical Scientist Training Program, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A
- Computational & Molecular Biophysics Program, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A
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- Computational & Systems Biology Program, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biological Systems Engineering Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1097, St. Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A
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Secondary structure, a missing component of sequence-based minimotif definitions. PLoS One 2012; 7:e49957. [PMID: 23236358 PMCID: PMC3517595 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2012] [Accepted: 10/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Minimotifs are short contiguous segments of proteins that have a known biological function. The hundreds of thousands of minimotifs discovered thus far are an important part of the theoretical understanding of the specificity of protein-protein interactions, posttranslational modifications, and signal transduction that occur in cells. However, a longstanding problem is that the different abstractions of the sequence definitions do not accurately capture the specificity, despite decades of effort by many labs. We present evidence that structure is an essential component of minimotif specificity, yet is not used in minimotif definitions. Our analysis of several known minimotifs as case studies, analysis of occurrences of minimotifs in structured and disordered regions of proteins, and review of the literature support a new model for minimotif definitions that includes sequence, structure, and function.
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The measles virus N(TAIL)-XD complex: an illustrative example of fuzziness. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 725:126-41. [PMID: 22399322 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0659-4_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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In this chapter, I focus on the biochemical and structural characterization of the complex between the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein (N(TAIL)) and the C-terminal X domain (XD) of the viral phosphoprotein (P). I summarize the main experimental data available so far pointing out the prevalently disordered nature of N(TAIL) even after complex formation and the role of the flexible C-terminal appendage in the binding reaction. I finally discuss the possible functional role of these residual disordered regions within the complex in terms of their ability to capture other regulatory, binding partners.
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Ghosh K, Moore JS. Foldamer Structuring by Covalently Bound Macromolecules. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:19650-2. [PMID: 22085331 DOI: 10.1021/ja2087163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Koushik Ghosh
- Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Uversky VN. Intrinsically disordered proteins from A to Z. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2011; 43:1090-103. [PMID: 21501695 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2011.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 327] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2011] [Revised: 03/31/2011] [Accepted: 04/01/2011] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The ideas that proteins might possess specific functions without being uniquely folded into rigid 3D-structures and that these floppy polypeptides might constitute a noticeable part of any given proteome would have been considered as a preposterous fiction 15 or even 10 years ago. The situation has changed recently, and the existence of functional yet intrinsically disordered proteins and regions has become accepted by a significant number of protein scientists. These fuzzy objects with fuzzy structures and fuzzy functions are among the most interesting and attractive targets for modern protein research. This review summarizes some of the major discoveries and breakthroughs in the field of intrinsic disorder by representing related concepts and definitions.
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- Vladimir N Uversky
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, FL 33612, USA.
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Boze H, Marlin T, Durand D, Pérez J, Vernhet A, Canon F, Sarni-Manchado P, Cheynier V, Cabane B. Proline-rich salivary proteins have extended conformations. Biophys J 2010; 99:656-65. [PMID: 20643086 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2010] [Revised: 04/17/2010] [Accepted: 04/21/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Three basic proline-rich salivary proteins have been produced through the recombinant route. IB5 is a small basic proline-rich protein that is involved in the binding of plant tannins in the oral cavity. II-1 is a larger protein with a closely related backbone; it is glycosylated, and it is also able to bind plant tannins. II-1 ng has the same polypeptidic backbone as II-1, but it is not glycosylated. Small angle x-ray scattering experiments on dilute solutions of these proteins confirm that they are intrinsically disordered. IB5 and II-1 ng can be described through a chain model including a persistence length and cross section. The measured radii of gyration (Rg=27.9 and 41.0+/-1 A respectively) and largest distances (rmax=110 and 155+/-10 A respectively) show that their average conformations are rather extended. The length of the statistical segment (twice the persistence length) is b=30 A, which is larger than the usual value (18 A-20 A) for unstructured polypeptide chains. These characteristics are presumably related to the presence of polyproline helices within the polypeptidic backbones. For both proteins, the radius of gyration of the chain cross-section is Rc=2.7+/-0.2A. The glycosylated protein II-1 has similar conformations but the presence of large polyoside sidegroups yields the structure of a branched macromolecule with the same hydrophobic backbone and hydrophilic branches. It is proposed that the unusually extended conformations of these proteins in solution facilitate the capture of plant tannins in the oral cavity.
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- Hélène Boze
- INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, UMR 1083 Sciences pour l'OEnologie, F-34060 Montpellier, France
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Tompa P, Kalmar L. Power law distribution defines structural disorder as a structural element directly linked with function. J Mol Biol 2010; 403:346-50. [PMID: 20816987 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Although intrinsically disordered proteins are prevalent and functionally important, it has never been asked whether structural disorder should be considered as a separate structural category on its own or merely as a lack of secondary and/or tertiary structure. We address this issue by showing that its length distribution in the human proteome follows a power law, with many short regions but also a significant incidence of very long disordered regions. This behavior is in sharp contrast with that of conventional secondary structural elements and is highly reminiscent of the distribution of tertiary structural units in proteins. We interpret this finding by the direct functional involvement of disorder, which distinguishes it from secondary structural elements and endows it with tertiary structural attributes.
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- Peter Tompa
- Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 7, 1518 Budapest, Hungary.
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Ability of a salivary intrinsically unstructured protein to bind different tannin targets revealed by mass spectrometry. Anal Bioanal Chem 2010; 398:815-22. [PMID: 20665010 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-3997-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2010] [Revised: 06/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/01/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Astringency is thought to result from the interaction between salivary proline-rich proteins (PRP) that belong to the intrinsically unstructured protein group (IUP), and tannins, which are phenolic compounds. IUPs have the ability to bind several and/or different targets. At the same time, tannins have different chemical features reported to contribute to the sensation of astringency. The ability of both electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry to investigate the noncovalent interaction occurring between a human salivary PRP, IB5, and a model tannin, epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate (EgCG), has been reported. Herein, we extend this method to study the effect of tannin chemical features on their interaction with IB5. We used five model tannins, epigallocatechin (EgC), epicatechin 3-O-gallate (ECG), epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate (EgCG), procyanidin dimer B2 and B2 3'-O-gallate, which cover the main tannin chemical features: presence of a gallate moiety (galloylation), the degree of polymerization, and the degree of B ring hydroxylation. We show the ability of IB5 to bind these tannins. We report differences in stoichiometries and in stability of the IB5•1 tannin complexes. These results demonstrate the main role of hydroxyl groups in these interactions and show the involvement of hydrogen bonds. Finally, these results are in line with sensory analysis, by Vidal et al. (J Sci Food Agric 83:564-573, 2003) pointing out that the chain length and the level of galloylation are the main factors affecting astringency perception.
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Xue B, Williams RW, Oldfield CJ, Dunker AK, Uversky VN. Archaic chaos: intrinsically disordered proteins in Archaea. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2010; 4 Suppl 1:S1. [PMID: 20522251 PMCID: PMC2880407 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-4-s1-s1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Many proteins or their regions known as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) lack unique 3D structure in their native states under physiological conditions yet fulfill key biological functions. Earlier bioinformatics studies showed that IDPs and IDRs are highly abundant in different proteomes and carry out mostly regulatory functions related to molecular recognition and signal transduction. Archaea belong to an intriguing domain of life whose members, being microbes, are characterized by a unique mosaic-like combination of bacterial and eukaryotic properties and include inhabitants of some of the most extreme environments on the planet. With the expansion of the archaea genome data (more than fifty archaea species from five different phyla are known now), and with recent improvements in the accuracy of intrinsic disorder prediction, it is time to re-examine the abundance of IDPs and IDRs in the archaea domain. RESULTS The abundance of IDPs and IDRs in 53 archaea species is analyzed. The amino acid composition profiles of these species are generally quite different from each other. The disordered content is highly species-dependent. Thermoproteales proteomes have 14% of disordered residues, while in Halobacteria, this value increases to 34%. In proteomes of these two phyla, proteins containing long disordered regions account for 12% and 46%, whereas 4% and 26% their proteins are wholly disordered. These three measures of disorder content are linearly correlated with each other at the genome level. There is a weak correlation between the environmental factors (such as salinity, pH and temperature of the habitats) and the abundance of intrinsic disorder in Archaea, with various environmental factors possessing different disorder-promoting strengths. Harsh environmental conditions, especially those combining several hostile factors, clearly favor increased disorder content. Intrinsic disorder is highly abundant in functional Pfam domains of the archaea origin. The analysis based on the disordered content and phylogenetic tree indicated diverse evolution of intrinsic disorder among various classes and species of Archaea. CONCLUSIONS Archaea proteins are rich in intrinsic disorder. Some of these IDPs and IDRs likely evolve to help archaea to accommodate to their hostile habitats. Other archaean IDPs and IDRs possess crucial biological functions similar to those of the bacterial and eukaryotic IDPs/IDRs.
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- Bin Xue
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814 , USA
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- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Informatics, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
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Xue B, Hsu WL, Lee JH, Lu H, Dunker AK, Uversky VN. SPA: Short peptide analyzer of intrinsic disorder status of short peptides. Genes Cells 2010; 15:635-46. [PMID: 20497238 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2010.01407.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Disorder prediction for short peptides is important and difficult. All modern predictors have to be optimized on a preselected dataset prior to prediction. In the succeeding prediction process, the predictor works on a query sequence or its short segment. For implementing the prediction smoothly and obtaining sound prediction results, a specific length of the sequence or segment is usually required. The need of the preselected dataset in the optimization process and the length limitation in the prediction process restrict predictors' performance. To minimize the influence of these limitations, we developed a method for the prediction of intrinsic disorder in short peptides based on large dataset sampling and statistics. As evident from the data analysis, this method provides more reliable prediction of the intrinsic disorder status of short peptides.
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- Bin Xue
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Xue B, Li L, Meroueh SO, Uversky VN, Dunker AK. Analysis of structured and intrinsically disordered regions of transmembrane proteins. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2010; 5:1688-1702. [PMID: 19585006 DOI: 10.1039/b905913j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Integral membrane proteins display two major types of transmembrane structure, helical bundles and beta barrels. The main functional roles of transmembrane proteins are the transport of small molecules and cell signaling, and sometimes these two roles are coupled. For cytosolic, water-soluble proteins, signaling and regulatory functions are often carried out by intrinsically disordered regions. Our long range goal is to determine whether integral membrane proteins likewise use disordered regions for signaling and regulation. Here we carried out a systematic bioinformatics investigation of intrinsically disordered regions obtained from integral membrane proteins for which crystal structures have been determined, and for which the intrinsic disorder was identified as missing electron density. We found 120 disorder-containing integral membrane proteins having a total of 33675 residues, with 3209 of the residues distributed among 240 different disordered regions. These disordered regions were compared with those obtained from water-soluble proteins with regards to their amino acid compositional biases, and to the accuracies of various disorder predictors. The results of these analyses show that the disordered regions from helical bundle integral membrane proteins, those from beta barrel integral membrane proteins, and those from water soluble proteins all exhibit statistically distinct amino acid compositional biases. Despite these differences in composition, current algorithms make reasonably accurate predictions of disorder for these membrane proteins. Although the small size of the current data sets are limiting, these results suggest that developing new predictors that make use of data from disordered regions in helical bundles and beta barrels, especially as these datasets increase in size, will likely lead to significantly more accurate disorder predictions for these two classes of integral membrane proteins.
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- Bin Xue
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
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Tompa P, Kovacs D. Intrinsically disordered chaperones in plants and animalsThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this special issue entitled “Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology 52nd Annual Meeting — Protein Folding: Principles and Diseases” and has undergone the Journal's usual peer review process. Biochem Cell Biol 2010; 88:167-74. [DOI: 10.1139/o09-163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are widespread in eukaryotes and fulfill important functions associated with signaling and regulation. Recent evidence points to a special and thus largely disrespected functional capacity of IDPs—that they can assist the folding of other proteins and prevent their aggregation, i.e., that they can act as chaperones. In this paper, we survey current information available on this phenomenon, with particular focus on (i) the structure and function of IDPs in general, (ii) disordered chaperones in plants, (iii) disordered chaperones in other organisms spanning from insects to mammals, (iv) the possible mechanisms of action of disordered chaperones, and (v) the possibility of two-faced (Janus) chaperone activity of disordered chaperones, which can assist the folding of both RNA and protein substrates. The evidence is most conclusive in the case of plant stress proteins, such as late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins or dehydrins. We will show that the cellular function of LEA proteins in mitigating the damage caused by stress is clear; nevertheless, experiments carried out in vivo must be extended and the molecular mechanism of the action of IDP chaperones also requires clarification. Using these details, we chart out how far the field has progressed only to emphasize the long road ahead before chaperone function can be firmly established as part of the physiological mechanistic arsenal of the emerging group of IDPs.
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- Peter Tompa
- Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Karolina ut 29, H-1113 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Karolina ut 29, H-1113 Budapest, Hungary
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Xue B, Dunbrack RL, Williams RW, Dunker AK, Uversky VN. PONDR-FIT: a meta-predictor of intrinsically disordered amino acids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2010; 1804:996-1010. [PMID: 20100603 PMCID: PMC2882806 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 876] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2009] [Revised: 01/08/2010] [Accepted: 01/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Protein intrinsic disorder is becoming increasingly recognized in proteomics research. While lacking structure, many regions of disorder have been associated with biological function. There are many different experimental methods for characterizing intrinsically disordered proteins and regions; nevertheless, the prediction of intrinsic disorder from amino acid sequence remains a useful strategy especially for many large-scale proteomic investigations. Here we introduced a consensus artificial neural network (ANN) prediction method, which was developed by combining the outputs of several individual disorder predictors. By eight-fold cross-validation, this meta-predictor, called PONDR-FIT, was found to improve the prediction accuracy over a range of 3 to 20% with an average of 11% compared to the single predictors, depending on the datasets being used. Analysis of the errors shows that the worst accuracy still occurs for short disordered regions with less than ten residues, as well as for the residues close to order/disorder boundaries. Increased understanding of the underlying mechanism by which such meta-predictors give improved predictions will likely promote the further development of protein disorder predictors. Access to PONDR-FIT is available at www.disprot.org.
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- Bin Xue
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD 20814
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Intrinsically Disordered Protein Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
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Characterization, stoichiometry, and stability of salivary protein–tannin complexes by ESI-MS and ESI-MS/MS. Anal Bioanal Chem 2009; 395:2535-45. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3180-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2009] [Revised: 09/16/2009] [Accepted: 09/21/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pascal C, Paté F, Cheynier V, Delsuc MA. Study of the interactions between a proline-rich protein and a flavan-3-ol by NMR: Residual structures in the natively unfolded protein provides anchorage points for the ligands. Biopolymers 2009; 91:745-56. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.21221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Tompa P. Structural disorder in amyloid fibrils: its implication in dynamic interactions of proteins. FEBS J 2009; 276:5406-15. [PMID: 19712107 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07250.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Proteins are occasionally converted from their normal soluble state to highly ordered fibrillar aggregates (amyloids), which give rise to pathological conditions that range from neurodegenerative disorders to systemic amyloidoses. Recent methodological advances in solid-state NMR and EPR spectroscopy have enabled determination of the 3D structure of several amyloids at residue-level resolution. The general picture that emerges is that amyloids constitute parallel beta sheets, in which individual polypeptide chains run roughly perpendicular to the major axis of the fibril and are stacked in-register. Thus, the unifying theme of amyloid formation is the structural transition from an initial globular or intrinsically disordered state to a highly ordered regular form. In this minireview, we show that this description is somewhat oversimplified, because part of the polypeptide chain in the amyloid remains intrinsically disordered and does not become part of the ordered core. As demonstrated through examples such as the amyloids of alpha-synuclein and Abeta peptide and the yeast prions HET-s and Ure2p, these disordered segments are depleted in amino acids NQFYV and are enriched in DEKP. They are also significantly more charged and have a higher predicted disordered value than segments in the cross-beta core. We suggest that structural disorder in amyloid is a special case of 'fuzziness', i.e. disorder in the bound state that may serve different functions, such as the accommodation of destabilizing residues and the mediation of secondary interactions between protofibrils.
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- P Tompa
- Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
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Hazy E, Tompa P. Limitations of Induced Folding in Molecular Recognition by Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Chemphyschem 2009; 10:1415-9. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Dyksterhuis LB, Carter EA, Mithieux SM, Weiss AS. Tropoelastin as a thermodynamically unfolded premolten globule protein: The effect of trimethylamine N-oxide on structure and coacervation. Arch Biochem Biophys 2009; 487:79-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2009.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2009] [Revised: 05/29/2009] [Accepted: 06/02/2009] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Colombo M, Bourhis JM, Chamontin C, Soriano C, Villet S, Costanzo S, Couturier M, Belle V, Fournel A, Darbon H, Gerlier D, Longhi S. The interaction between the measles virus nucleoprotein and the Interferon Regulator Factor 3 relies on a specific cellular environment. Virol J 2009; 6:59. [PMID: 19445677 PMCID: PMC2686699 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-6-59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2009] [Accepted: 05/15/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background The genome of measles virus consists of a non-segmented single-stranded RNA molecule of negative polarity, which is encapsidated by the viral nucleoprotein (N) within a helical nucleocapsid. The N protein possesses an intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain (aa 401–525, NTAIL) that is exposed at the surface of the viral nucleopcapsid. Thanks to its flexible nature, NTAIL interacts with several viral and cellular partners. Among these latter, the Interferon Regulator Factor 3 (IRF-3) has been reported to interact with N, with the interaction having been mapped to the regulatory domain of IRF-3 and to NTAIL. This interaction was described to lead to the phosphorylation-dependent activation of IRF-3, and to the ensuing activation of the pro-immune cytokine RANTES gene. Results After confirming the reciprocal ability of IRF-3 and N to be co-immunoprecipitated in 293T cells, we thoroughly investigated the NTAIL-IRF-3 interaction using a recombinant, monomeric form of the regulatory domain of IRF-3. Using a large panel of spectroscopic approaches, including circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, we failed to detect any direct interaction between IRF-3 and either full-length N or NTAIL under conditions where these latter interact with the C-terminal X domain of the viral phosphoprotein. Furthermore, such interaction was neither detected in E. coli nor in a yeast two hybrid assay. Conclusion Altogether, these data support the requirement for a specific cellular environment, such as that provided by 293T human cells, for the NTAIL-IRF-3 interaction to occur. This dependence from a specific cellular context likely reflects the requirement for a human or mammalian cellular co-factor.
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- Matteo Colombo
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 6098 CNRS et Universités Aix-Marseille I et II, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Case 932, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France.
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Belle V, Rouger S, Costanzo S, Liquière E, Strancar J, Guigliarelli B, Fournel A, Longhi S. Mapping alpha-helical induced folding within the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein by site-directed spin-labeling EPR spectroscopy. Proteins 2008; 73:973-88. [PMID: 18536007 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Using site-directed spin-labeling EPR spectroscopy, we mapped the region of the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of measles virus nucleoprotein (N(TAIL)) that undergoes induced folding. In addition to four spin-labeled N(TAIL) variants (S407C, S488C, L496C, and V517C) (Morin et al. (2006), J Phys Chem 110: 20596-20608), 10 new single-site cysteine variants were designed, purified from E. coli, and spin-labeled. These 14 spin-labeled variants enabled us to map in detail the gain of rigidity of N(TAIL) in the presence of either the secondary structure stabilizer 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol or the C-terminal domain X (XD) of the viral phosphoprotein. Different regions of N(TAIL) were shown to contribute to a different extent to the binding to XD, while the mobility of the spin labels grafted at positions 407 and 460 was unaffected upon addition of XD; that of the spin labels grafted within the 488-502 and the 505-522 regions was severely and moderately reduced, respectively. Furthermore, EPR experiments in the presence of 30% sucrose allowed us to precisely map to residues 488-502, the N(TAIL) region undergoing alpha-helical folding. The mobility of the 488-502 region was found to be restrained even in the absence of the partner, a behavior that could be accounted for by the existence of a transiently populated folded state. Finally, we show that the restrained motion of the 505-522 region upon binding to XD is due to the alpha-helical transition occurring within the 488-502 region and not to a direct interaction with XD.
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- Valérie Belle
- Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, UPR 9036 CNRS et Université Aix-Marseille I et II, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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Janus chaperones: Assistance of both RNA- and protein-folding by ribosomal proteins. FEBS Lett 2008; 583:88-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.11.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2008] [Revised: 11/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Measles virus belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family within the Mononegavirales order. Its nonsegmented, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA genome is encapsidated by the nucleoprotein (N) to form a helical nucleocapsid. This ribonucleoproteic complex is the substrate for both transcription and replication. The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase binds to the nucleocapsid template via its co-factor, the phosphoprotein (P). This chapter describes the main structural information available on the nucleoprotein, showing that it consists of a structured core (N(CORE)) and an intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain (N(TAIL)). We propose a model where the dynamic breaking and reforming of the interaction between N(TAIL) and P would allow the polymerase complex (L-P) to cartwheel on the nucleocapsid template. We also propose a model where the flexibility of the disordered N and P domains allows the formation of a tripartite complex (No-P-L) during replication, followed by the delivery of N monomers to the newly synthesized genomic RNA chain. Finally, the functional implications of structural disorder are also discussed in light of the ability of disordered regions to establish interactions with multiple partners, thus leading to multiple biological effects.
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- S Longhi
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 6098 CNRS et Universités Aix-Marseille I et II, 163 avenue de Luminy, Case 932, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France.
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Conserved amphiphilic feature is essential for periplasmic chaperone HdeA to support acid resistance in enteric bacteria. Biochem J 2008; 412:389-97. [PMID: 18271752 DOI: 10.1042/bj20071682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The extremely acidic environment of the mammalian stomach (pH 1-3) represents a stressful challenge for enteric pathogenic bacteria, including Escherichia coli, Shigella and Brucella. The hdeA (hns-dependent expression A) gene was found to be crucial for the survival of these enteric bacteria under extremely low pH conditions. We recently demonstrated that HdeA is able to exhibit chaperone-like activity exclusively within the stomach pH range by transforming from a well-folded conformation at higher pH values (above pH 3) into an unfolded conformation at extremely low pH values (below pH 3). This study was performed to characterize the action mechanisms and underlying specific structural features for HdeA to function in this unfolded conformation. In the present study, we demonstrate that the conserved 'amphiphilic' feature of HdeA, i.e. the exposure of the conserved hydrophobic region and highly charged terminal regions, is essential for exhibiting chaperone-like activity under extremely low pH conditions. Mutations that disrupt this amphiphilic feature markedly reduced the chaperone-like activity of HdeA. The results also strongly suggest that this acid-induced chaperone-like activity of HdeA is crucial for acid resistance of the enteric bacteria. Moreover, our new understanding of this amphiphilic structural feature of HdeA helps to better interpret how this unfolded (disordered) conformation could be functionally active.
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Denatured-state energy landscapes of a protein structural database reveal the energetic determinants of a framework model for folding. J Mol Biol 2008; 381:1184-201. [PMID: 18616947 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.06.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2008] [Revised: 06/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Position-specific denatured-state thermodynamics were determined for a database of human proteins by use of an ensemble-based model of protein structure. The results of modeling denatured protein in this manner reveal important sequence-dependent thermodynamic properties in the denatured ensembles as well as fundamental differences between the denatured and native ensembles in overall thermodynamic character. The generality and robustness of these results were validated by performing fold-recognition experiments, whereby sequences were matched with their respective folds based on amino acid propensities for the different energetic environments in the protein, as determined through cluster analysis. Correlation analysis between structure and energetic information revealed that sequence segments destined for beta-sheet in the final native fold are energetically more predisposed to a broader repertoire of states than are sequence segments destined for alpha-helix. These results suggest that within the subensemble of mostly unstructured states, the energy landscapes are dominated by states in which parts of helices adopt structure, whereas structure formation for sequences destined for beta-strand is far less probable. These results support a framework model of folding, which suggests that, in general, the denatured state has evolutionarily evolved to avoid low-energy conformations in sequences that ultimately adopt beta-strand. Instead, the denatured state evolved so that sequence segments that ultimately adopt alpha-helix and coil will have a high intrinsic structure formation capability, thus serving as potential nucleation sites.
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Che Y, Marshall GR. Privileged scaffolds targeting reverse-turn and helix recognition. Expert Opin Ther Targets 2008; 12:101-14. [PMID: 18076374 DOI: 10.1517/14728222.12.1.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Protein-protein interactions dominate molecular recognition in biologic systems. One major challenge for drug discovery arises from the very large surfaces that are characteristic of many protein-protein interactions. OBJECTIVES To identify 'drug-like' small molecule leads capable of modulating protein-protein interactions based on common protein-recognition motifs, such as alpha-helices, beta-strands, reverse-turns and polyproline motifs for example. OVERVIEW Many proteins/peptides are unstructured under physiologic conditions and only fold into ordered structures on binding to their cellular targets. Therefore, preorganization of an inhibitor into its protein-bound conformation reduces the entropy of binding and enhances the relative affinity of the inhibitor. Accordingly, this review describes a general strategy to address the challenge based on the 'privileged structure hypothesis' [Che, PhD thesis, Washington University, 2003] that chemical templates capable of mimicking surfaces of protein-recognition motifs are potential privileged scaffolds as small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions. The authors highlight recent advances in the design of privileged scaffolds targeting reverse-turn and helical recognition. CONCLUSIONS Privileged scaffolds targeting common protein-recognition motifs are useful to help elucidate the receptor-bound conformation and to provide non-peptidic, bioavailable substructures suitable for optimization to modulate protein-protein interactions.
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- Ye Che
- Washington University, Center for Computational Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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The prolylproline sequence unit is found in several naturally occurring linear and cyclic peptides with immunosuppressive and toxic activity. Furthermore, Pro-Pro units are abundant in collagen, in ligand motifs binding to SH3 or WW domains, as well as in vital enzymes such as DNA glycosylase and thrombin. In all these sequence units a special role is dedicated to conformation in order to successfully fulfill the appropriate biological function. Therefore, a detailed analysis of the basic conformational properties of Pro-Pro is expected to reveal the versatile structural role of this sequence. PCM (polarizable continuum model) calculations on the basis of ab initio and density functional theory investigations using the model peptide HCO-L-Pro-L-Pro-NH2 are presented. Cis-trans isomerism, backbone conformation and ring puckering are studied. A systematic comparison is made to experimental data gained on L-prolyl-L-proline sequence units retrieved from the Protein Data Bank as well as from the Cambridge Structural Database. PCM data are in good agreement with high-resolution X-ray crystallography. Population data derived from energy calculations and those gained directly from statistics predict that 87% of the Pro-Pro sequence units adopt elongated structures, while 13% form beta-turns. Both approaches prefer the same 6 out of the 36 ideally possible backbone folds. Polyproline II unit (t epsilonL t epsilonL), other elongated structures (c epsilonL t epsilonL, t epsilonL t alphaL and t epsilonL t gammaL), type VIa (t epsilonL c alphaL) and type I or III beta-turns (t alphaL t alphaL) altogether describe 96% of the prolylproline sequences. In disordered proteins or domains, Pro-Pro sequence units may sample the various conformers and contribute to the segmental motions.
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- Ilona Hudáky
- Laboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány sétány 1/A, Budapest 1117, Hungary
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Getun IV, Brown CK, Tulla-Puche J, Ohlendorf D, Woodward C, Barany G. Partially Folded Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor Analogues Attain Fully Native Structures when Co-Crystallized with S195A Rat Trypsin. J Mol Biol 2008; 375:812-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.10.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2007] [Revised: 10/28/2007] [Accepted: 10/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Morin B, Bourhis JM, Belle V, Woudstra M, Carrière F, Guigliarelli B, Fournel A, Longhi S. Assessing induced folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by site-directed spin-labeling electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:20596-608. [PMID: 17034249 DOI: 10.1021/jp063708u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We used site-directed spin-labeling electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to study the induced folding of the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of measles virus nucleoprotein (N(TAIL)). Four single-site N(TAIL) mutants (S407C, S488C, L496C, and V517C), located in three conserved regions, were prepared and labeled with a nitroxide paramagnetic probe. We could monitor the gain of rigidity that N(TAIL) undergoes in the presence of either the secondary structure stabilizer 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) or one of its physiological partners, namely, the C-terminal domain (XD) of the viral phosphoprotein. The mobility of the spin label grafted at positions 488, 496, and 517 was significantly reduced upon addition of XD, contrary to that of the spin label bound to position 407, which was unaffected. Furthermore, the EPR spectra of spin-labeled S488C and L496C bound to XD in the presence of 30% sucrose are indicative of the formation of an alpha-helix in the proximity of the spin labels. Such an alpha-helix had been already identified by previous biochemical and structural studies. Using TFE we unveiled a previously undetected structural propensity within the N-terminal region of N(TAIL) and showed that its C-terminal region "resists" gaining structure even at high TFE concentrations. Finally, we for the first time showed the reversibility of the induced folding process that N(TAIL) undergoes in the presence of XD. These results highlight the suitability of site-directed spin-labeling EPR spectroscopy to identify protein regions involved in binding and folding events, while providing insights at the residue level.
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- Benjamin Morin
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 6098 CNRS et Universités Aix-Marseille I et II, Campus de Luminy, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Case 932, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
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Haag Breese E, Uversky VN, Georgiadis MM, Harrington MA. The disordered amino-terminus of SIMPL interacts with members of the 70-kDa heat-shock protein family. DNA Cell Biol 2007; 25:704-14. [PMID: 17233114 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2006.25.704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The p65 coactivator SIMPL is a small protein that lacks any conserved domains of known function. To better understand regulation of SIMPL activity, we sought to identify novel SIMPL interacting proteins using mass spectrometry analysis of SIMPL containing complexes. Two members of the 70-kDa heat-shock protein family, Hsp70 and Hsc70, were identified as SIMPL binding proteins. Subsequent immunocomplexing assays confirmed this interaction and demonstrated that the amino-terminus of SIMPL is required for this interaction. Using a combination of amino acid composition analysis, PONDR VL-XT prediction, charge-hydropathy plots, and cumulative distribution functions, the amino-terminal region of both mouse and human SIMPL proteins was predicted to be intrinsically disordered. These data, taken together, suggest that Hsp70/Hsc70 bind the intrinsically disordered amino-terminal region of SIMPL to stabilize the protein and thereby regulate its activity. Understanding the regulation of SIMPL through its interaction with Hsp70/Hsc70 may serve as a novel means of modulating tumor necrosis factor alpha signaling.
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- Erin Haag Breese
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University Cancer Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46220, USA
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Solt I, Magyar C, Simon I, Tompa P, Fuxreiter M. Phosphorylation-induced transient intrinsic structure in the kinase-inducible domain of CREB facilitates its recognition by the KIX domain of CBP. Proteins 2006; 64:749-57. [PMID: 16761278 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Phosphorylation at Ser-133 of the kinase inducible domain of CREB (KID) triggers its binding to the KIX domain of CBP via a concomitant coil-to-helix transition. The exact role of this key event is still puzzling: it does not switch between disordered and ordered states, nor its direct interactions fully account for selectivity. Hence, we reasoned that phosphorylation may shift the conformational preferences of KID towards a binding-competent state. To this end we investigated the intrinsic structural properties of the unbound KID in phosphorylated and unphosphorylated forms by simulated annealing and molecular dynamics simulations. Although helical populations show subtle differences, phosphorylation reduces the flexibility of the turn segment connecting the two helices in the complexed structure and induces a transient structural element that corresponds to its bound conformation. It is stabilized by the pSer-133-Arg-131 interaction, which is absent from the unphosphorylated KID. Diminishing this coupling decreases the 3.1 kcal/mol contribution of pSer-133 to the binding free energy (DeltaGbind) of the phosphorylated KID to KIX by 1.1 kcal/mol, as computed in reference to Ser-133. In a binding competent form of the S133E KID mutant, the contribution of Glu-133 to DeltaGbind is by 1.5 kcal/mol smaller than that of pSer, suggesting that altered structural properties due to pSer --> Glu replacement impair the binding affinity. Thus, we propose that phoshorylation contributes to selectivity not merely by the direct interactions of the phosphate group with KIX, but also by promoting the formation of a transient structural element in the highly conserved turn segment.
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- Iván Solt
- Institute of Enzymology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Skrabana R, Sevcik J, Novak M. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in the Neurodegenerative Processes: Formation of Tau Protein Paired Helical Filaments and Their Analysis. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2006; 26:1085-97. [PMID: 16779670 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-006-9083-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2005] [Accepted: 05/01/2006] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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1. Several intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play principal role in the neurodegenerative processes of various types. Among them, alpha-synuclein is involved in Parkinson's disease, prion protein in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and tau protein in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related tauopathies. Neuronal damage in AD is accompanied by the presence of tau protein fibrils composed of paired helical filaments (PHF). 2. Tau protein represents a typical IDP. IDPs do not exhibit any stable secondary structure in the free form, but they are able to fold after binding to targets and contain regions with large propensity to adopt a defined type of secondary structure. Binding-folding event at tau protein leading to PHF generation is believed to happen in the course of tauopathies. 3. Detailed molecular topology of PHF formation is unknown. There are evidences about the cross-beta structure in PHF core; however the precise arrangement of the tau polypeptide chain is unclear. In this review we summarize current attempts at in vitro PHF reconstruction and the development of methods for PHF structure determination. The emphasis is put on the monoclonal antibodies used as structural molecular probes for research on the role of IDPs in pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Rostislav Skrabana
- Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Bustos DM, Iglesias AA. Intrinsic disorder is a key characteristic in partners that bind 14-3-3 proteins. Proteins 2006; 63:35-42. [PMID: 16444738 DOI: 10.1002/prot.20888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Proteins named 14-3-3 can bind more than 200 different proteins, mostly (but not exclusively) when they are at a phosphorylated state. These partner proteins are involved in different cellular processes, such as cell signaling, transcription factors, cellular morphology, and metabolism; this suggests pleiotropic functionality for 14-3-3 proteins. Recent efforts to establish a rational classification of 14-3-3 binding partners showed neither structural nor functional relatedness in this group of proteins. Using three natural predictors of disorder in proteins, and the structural available information, we show that >90% of 14-3-3 protein partners contain disordered regions. This percentage is significantly high when compared with recent studies on cell signaling and cancer-related proteins or RNA chaperons. More important, almost all 14-3-3-binding sites are inside disordered regions, this reinforcing the importance of structural disorder in this class of proteins. We also propose that a disorder-to-order transition occurs in the binding of 14-3-3 proteins with their partners. We discuss the consequences of the latter for consensus binding sequences, specificity, affinity, and thermodynamic control.
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- Diego M Bustos
- Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús-IIB-INTECH, Camino Circunvalación, Chascomús, Argentina.
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Pascal C, Bigey F, Ratomahenina R, Boze H, Moulin G, Sarni-Manchado P. Overexpression and characterization of two human salivary proline rich proteins. Protein Expr Purif 2006; 47:524-32. [PMID: 16529944 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2005] [Revised: 01/13/2006] [Accepted: 01/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Proline rich proteins (PRP) are among major human saliva constituents and are known to interact with wine tannins that are involved in astringency. To characterize these interactions, a human salivary proline rich pro-protein, PRB4S, was overexpressed in Pichia pastoris. Six recombinant proteins resulting from maturation in bioreactor were detected by SDS-PAGE analysis between 15 and 45 kDa (apparent molecular weight). Two of them, the 45 and the 15 kDa ones, were isolated from culture supernatant by adsorption and permeation chromatography. They were characterized by N-terminal sequencing and MALDI-TOF analysis after trypsic digestion. The 45 kDa protein is glycosylated while the 15 kDa one was obtained after a furin-like proteolysis. Both of them are similar to human whole saliva PRP resulting from proteolysis of PRB4S pro-protein in Golgi network and known as II-1 and IB-5. Because of their sensitivity to proteolysis or their unusual mobility on SDS-PAGE gel, these recombinant proteins seem to be intrinsically unstructured proteins.
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- Christine Pascal
- UMR Sciences Pour l'oenologie (SPO), INRA-ENSAM, équipe Systèmes Supramoléculaires Impliquant les Polyphénols, Montpellier, France
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