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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2025

SHARK-capture identifies functional motifs in intrinsically disordered protein regions.

Chi Fung Willis Chow, Swantje Lenz, Maxim Scheremetjew, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Doris Richter, Ceciel Jegers, Alexander von Appen, Simon Alberti, Agnes Toth-Petroczy

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Chi Fung Willis ChowMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9889-9664
Swantje LenzMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8839-5371
Maxim ScheremetjewMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7458-3072
Soumyadeep GhoshMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4691-3636
Doris RichterMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Ceciel JegersCluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Alexander von AppenMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6528-2123
Simon AlbertiCluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4017-6505
Agnes Toth-PetroczyMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0333-604X

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 471025906Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EXC-2068 - 390729961European Research Council 725836Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing insights into how sequence motifs in intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) provide functions underscore the need for systematic motif detection. Contrary to structured regions where motifs can be readily identified from sequence alignments, the rapid evolution of IDRs limits the usage of alignment-based tools in reliably detecting motifs within. Here, we developed SHARK-capture, an alignment-free motif detection tool designed for difficult-to-align regions. SHARK-capture innovates on word-based methods by flexibly incorporating amino acid physicochemistry to assess motif similarity without requiring rigid definitions of equivalency groups. SHARK-capture offers consistently strong performance in a systematic benchmark, with superior residue-level performance. SHARK-capture identified known functional motifs across orthologs of the microtubule-associated zinc finger protein BuGZ. We also identified a short motif in the IDR of S. cerevisiae RNA helicase Ded1p, which we experimentally verified to be capable of promoting ATPase activity. Our improved performance allows us to systematically calculate 10,889 motifs for 2695 yeast IDRs and provide it as a resource. SHARK-capture offers the most precise tool yet for the systematic identification of conserved regions in IDRs and is freely available as a Python package (https://pypi.org/project/bio-shark/) and on https://git.mpi-cbg.de/tothpetroczylab/shark.

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Computational BiologyIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSoftwareAmino Acid MotifsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSequence AlignmentIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinsalignment‐freeIDRsmotif detectionsequence‐to‐function

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PMCPMC11917139

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