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Arrestins: Structural Disorder Creates Rich Functionality, Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Eugenia V. Gurevich, Vladimir N. Uversky
Arrestins: Structural Disorder Creates Rich Functionality, Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Eugenia V. Gurevich, Vladimir N. Uversky
Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications
Arrestins are soluble relatively small 44–46 kDa proteins that specifically bind hundreds of active phosphorylated GPCRs and dozens of non-receptor partners. There are binding partners that demonstrate preference for each of the known arrestin conformations: free, receptor-bound, and microtubule-bound. Recent evidence suggests that conformational flexibility in every functional state is the defining characteristic of arrestins. Flexibility, or plasticity, of proteins is often described as structural disorder, in contrast to the fixed conformational order observed in high-resolution crystal structures. However, protein-protein interactions often involve highly flexible elements that can assume many distinct conformations upon binding to different partners. Existing evidence suggests …