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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Sequence-based prediction of intermolecular interactions driven by disordered regions.

Garrett M Ginell, Ryan J Emenecker, Jeffrey M Lotthammer, Alex T Keeley, Stephen P Plassmeyer, Nicholas Razo, Emery T Usher, Jaqueline F Pelham, Alex S Holehouse

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Garrett M GinellDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6511-5480
Ryan J EmeneckerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7055-2773
Jeffrey M LotthammerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5022-7006
Alex T KeeleyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-4068-0652
Stephen P PlassmeyerDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8986-0650
Nicholas RazoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4652-1149
Emery T UsherDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8303-9992
Jaqueline F PelhamDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2268-3012
Alex S HolehouseDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4155-5729

Funding

Uncovering the regulatory logic of gene expression encoded by disordered regionsDP2CA290639 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Alex S Holehouse · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA290639
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in proteins play essential roles in cellular function. A growing body of work has shown that IDRs often interact with partners in a manner that does not depend on the precise order of amino acids but is instead driven by complementary chemical interactions, leading to disordered bound-state complexes. However, these chemically specific dynamic interactions are difficult to predict. In this study, we repurposed the chemical physics developed originally for molecular simulations to predict this chemical specificity between IDRs and partner proteins using protein sequence as the only input. Our approach-FINCHES-enables the direct prediction of phase diagrams, the identification of chemically specific interaction hotspots on IDRs, the decomposition of chemically distinct domains in IDRs, and a route to develop and test mechanistic hypotheses regarding IDR function in molecular recognition.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsProtein Interaction MappingAmino Acid SequenceMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein FoldingIntrinsically Disordered Proteins

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PMID40403066
PMCPMC12377204

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