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ArticleScientific reports2019

Designed Mutations Alter the Binding Pathways of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein.

Di Wu, Huan-Xiang Zhou

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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2 authors.

Di WuDepartment of Physics and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
Huan-Xiang ZhouDepartment of Chemistry and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA. hzhou43@uic.edu.

Funding

Structural and functional studies of mRNA processing, stability and quality controlR35GM118093 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI LIANG TONG · 2016 to 2026
$8.5M
Quantitative, Mechanistic Studies of Biomolecular RecognitionR35GM118091 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI Huan-Xiang Zhou · 2016 to 2026
$6.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118091NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118093
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many cellular functions, including signaling and regulation, are carried out by intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) binding to their targets. Experimental and computational studies have now significantly advanced our understanding of these binding processes. In particular, IDPs that become structured upon binding typically follow a dock-and-coalesce mechanism, whereby the docking of one IDP segment initiates the process, followed by on-target coalescence of remaining IDP segments. Multiple dock-and-coalesce pathways may exist, but one may dominate, by relying on electrostatic attraction and molecular flexibility for fast docking and fast coalescing, respectively. Here we critically test this mechanistic understanding by designing mutations that alter the dominant pathway. This achievement marks an important step toward precisely manipulating IDP functions.

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cdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinHumansIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsModels, MolecularMutationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsSignal TransductionWiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Proteincdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinCDC42 protein, humanIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsWAS protein, humanWiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein

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PMID30992509
PMCPMC6467919

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