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ArticleNature communications2025

Molecular simulations of enzymatic phosphorylation of disordered proteins and their condensates.

Emanuele Zippo, Dorothee Dormann, Thomas Speck, Lukas S Stelzl

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  5. Molecular Modulation of the Crosstalk Between TDP-43 and SOD1.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Transcriptional condensates encode a "golden mean" to optimize enhancer-promoter communication across genomic distances.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Emanuele ZippoInstitute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-5623-3471
Dorothee DormannInstitute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9260-2775
Thomas SpeckInstitute for Theoretical Physics IV, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Lukas S StelzlInstitute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. lstelzl@uni-mainz.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-0277

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 233630050Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 464588647
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Condensation and aggregation of disordered proteins in cellular non-equilibrium environments are shaped decisively by enzymes. Enzymes called kinases phosphorylate proteins, consuming the chemical fuel ATP. Protein phosphorylation by kinases such as Casein kinase 1 delta (CK1δ) determines the interactions of neurodegeneration-linked proteins such as TDP-43. Hyperphosphorylation of TDP-43 by CK1δ may be a cytoprotective mechanism for neurons, but how CK1δ interacts with protein condensates is not known. Molecular dynamics simulations hold the promise to resolve how kinases interact with disordered proteins and their condensates, and how this shapes the phosphorylation dynamics. In practice, it is difficult to verify whether implementations of chemical-fuel driven coarse-grained simulations are thermodynamically consistent, which we address by a generally applicable and automatic Markov state modeling approach. In this work, we thus elucidate with coarse-grained simulations, drivers of how TDP-43 is phosphorylated by CK1δ and how this leads to the dissolution of TDP-43 condensates upon hyperphosphorylation.

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Casein Kinase IdeltaDNA-Binding ProteinsIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsMolecular Dynamics SimulationHumansMarkov ChainsPhosphorylationProtein BindingThermodynamicsCasein Kinase IdeltaDNA-Binding ProteinsIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsTARDBP protein, human

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PMID40389455
PMCPMC12089381

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