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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Intrinsic Disorder In Transmembrane Proteins: Roles In Signaling And Topology Prediction, Jérôme Bürgi, Bin Xue, Vladimir N Uversky, F Gisou Van Der Goot
Intrinsic Disorder In Transmembrane Proteins: Roles In Signaling And Topology Prediction, Jérôme Bürgi, Bin Xue, Vladimir N Uversky, F Gisou Van Der Goot
Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are peculiar stretches of amino acids that lack stable conformations in solution. Intrinsic Disorder containing Proteins (IDP) are defined by the presence of at least one large IDR and have been linked to multiple cellular processes including cell signaling, DNA binding and cancer. Here we used computational analyses and publicly available databases to deepen insight into the prevalence and function of IDRs specifically in transmembrane proteins, which are somewhat neglected in most studies. We found that 50% of transmembrane proteins have at least one IDR of 30 amino acids or more. Interestingly, these domains preferentially localize …
Neddylation Promotes Stress Granule Assembly, Aravinth Kumar Jayabalan, Anthony Sanchez, Ra Young Park, Sang Pil Yoon, Gum-Yong Kang, Je-Hyun Baek, Paul Anderson, Younghoon Kee, Takbum Ohn
Neddylation Promotes Stress Granule Assembly, Aravinth Kumar Jayabalan, Anthony Sanchez, Ra Young Park, Sang Pil Yoon, Gum-Yong Kang, Je-Hyun Baek, Paul Anderson, Younghoon Kee, Takbum Ohn
Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications
Stress granules (SGs) harbour translationally stalled messenger ibonucleoproteins and play important roles in regulating gene expression and cell fate. Here we show that neddylation promotes SG assembly in response to arsenite-induced oxidative stress. Inhibition or depletion of key components of the neddylation machinery concomitantly inhibits stress-induced polysome disassembly and SG assembly. Affinity purification and subsequent mass-spectrometric analysis of Nedd8-conjugated proteins from translationally stalled ribosomal fractions identified ribosomal proteins, translation factors and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), including SRSF3, a previously known SG regulator. We show that SRSF3 is selectively neddylated at Lys85 in response to arsenite. A non-neddylatable SRSF3 (K85R) mutant do …
The Exceptionally High Reactivity Of Cys 621 Is Critical For Electrophilic Activation Of The Sensory Nerve Ion Channel Trpa1, Parmvir K. Bahia, Thomas A. Parks, Katherine R. Stanford, David A. Mitchell, Sameer Varma, Stanley M. Stevens Jr., Thomas E. Taylor-Clark
The Exceptionally High Reactivity Of Cys 621 Is Critical For Electrophilic Activation Of The Sensory Nerve Ion Channel Trpa1, Parmvir K. Bahia, Thomas A. Parks, Katherine R. Stanford, David A. Mitchell, Sameer Varma, Stanley M. Stevens Jr., Thomas E. Taylor-Clark
Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications
Activation of the sensory nerve ion channel TRPA1 by electrophiles is the key mechanism that initiates nociceptive signaling, and leads to defensive reflexes and avoidance behaviors, during oxidative stress in mammals. TRPA1 is rapidly activated by subtoxic levels of electrophiles, but it is unclear how TRPA1 outcompetes cellular antioxidants that protect cytosolic proteins from electrophiles. Here, using physiologically relevant exposures, we demonstrate that electrophiles react with cysteine residues on mammalian TRPA1 at rates that exceed the reactivity of typical cysteines by 6,000-fold and that also exceed the reactivity of antioxidant enzymes. We show that TRPA1 possesses a complex reactive cysteine …