Bah Alaji, Forman-Kay Julie D
From the Program in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4 and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
J Biol Chem. 2016 Mar 25;291(13):6696-705. doi: 10.1074/jbc.R115.695056. Epub 2016 Feb 5.
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) produce significant changes in the structural properties of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) by affecting their energy landscapes. PTMs can induce a range of effects, from local stabilization or destabilization of transient secondary structure to global disorder-to-order transitions, potentially driving complete state changes between intrinsically disordered and folded states or dispersed monomeric and phase-separated states. Here, we discuss diverse biological processes that are dependent on PTM regulation of IDPs. We also present recent tools for generating homogenously modified IDPs for studies of PTM-mediated IDP regulatory mechanisms.
翻译后修饰(PTM)通过影响内在无序蛋白(IDP)的能量景观,使其结构特性发生显著变化。PTM可以引发一系列效应,从局部稳定或破坏瞬时二级结构,到整体的无序到有序转变,有可能驱动内在无序状态与折叠状态之间,或分散单体状态与相分离状态之间的完全状态变化。在这里,我们讨论了依赖于IDP的PTM调控的各种生物过程。我们还介绍了用于生成均匀修饰的IDP以研究PTM介导的IDP调控机制的最新工具。