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ArticleBiochimica et biophysica acta2013

Intrinsically disordered regions of p53 family are highly diversified in evolution.

Bin Xue, Celeste J Brown, A Keith Dunker, Vladimir N Uversky

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Article in Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Bin XueDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Celeste J Brown
A Keith Dunker
Vladimir N Uversky
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · USInstitute for Biological Instrumentation · RUUniversity of Idaho · USUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

The Evolution of Protein FlexibilityP20RR016448 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI BROWN, CELESTE J · 2002 to 2011
$19.3M
Center for Research on Processes in EvolutionP20GM103397 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI FORNEY, LARRY J · 2012 to 2012
$1.9M
NCRR NIH HHS 5P20RR16448NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016448NIGMS NIH HHS 8P20GM103397NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103397
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins of the p53 family are expressed in vertebrates and in some invertebrate species. The main function of these proteins is to control and regulate cell cycle in response to various cellular signals, and therefore to control the organism's development. The regulatory functions of the p53 family members originate mostly from their highly-conserved and well-structured DNA-binding domains. Many human diseases (including various types of cancer) are related to the missense mutations within this domain. The ordered DNA-binding domains of the p53 family members are surrounded by functionally important intrinsically disordered regions. In this study, substitution rates and propensities in different regions of p53 were analyzed. The analyses revealed that the ordered DNA-binding domain is conserved, whereas disordered regions are characterized by high sequence diversity. This diversity was reflected both in the number of substitutions and in the types of substitutions to which each amino acid was prone. These results support the existence of a positive correlation between protein intrinsic disorder and sequence divergence during the evolutionary process. This higher sequence divergence provides strong support for the existence of disordered regions in p53 in vivo for if they were structured, they would evolve at similar rates as the rest of the protein.

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Evolution, MolecularTumor Suppressor Protein p53Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell Cycle CheckpointsConserved SequenceDatabases, ProteinDNA-Binding ProteinsGenetic VariationHumansMolecular Sequence DataMutation, MissenseProtein ConformationProtein Structure, TertiaryDNA-Binding ProteinsTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID23352836
PMCPMC3905691
OpenAlexW2064564458

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