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most citedComparative Roles of Charge, and Hydrophobic Interactions in Sequence-Dependent Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

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q-bio.BM2025★ 3 cited

Deep Learning of Proteins with Local and Global Regions of Disorder

Oufan Zhang, Zi Hao Liu, Julie D Forman-Kay +1

Although machine learning has transformed protein structure prediction of folded protein ground states with remarkable accuracy, intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs…

physics.bio-ph2024

Biological Insights from Integrative Modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Systems

Zi Hao Liu, Maria Tsanai, Oufan Zhang +2

Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions are increasingly appreciated for their abundance in the proteome and the many functional roles they play in the cell. In this short re…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 1 cited

Computational Methods to Investigate Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and their Complexes

Zi Hao Liu, Maria Tsanai, Oufan Zhang +2

In 1999 Wright and Dyson highlighted the fact that large sections of the proteome of all organisms are comprised of protein sequences that lack globular folded structures under phy…

physics.bio-ph2024

A Curated Rotamer Library for Common Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins

Oufan Zhang, Shubhankar A. Naik, Zi Hao Liu +2

Sidechain rotamer libraries of the common amino acids of a protein are useful for folded protein structure determination and for generating ensembles of intrinsically disordered pr…

q-bio.BM2024★ 27 cited

Electrostatics of Salt-Dependent Reentrant Phase Behaviors Highlights Diverse Roles of ATP in Biomolecular Condensates

Yi-Hsuan Lin, Tae Hun Kim, Suman Das +6

Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) involving intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) is a major physical mechanism for biological membraneless compartmentalization. The…

physics.bio-ph2022★ 40 cited

Learning to Evolve Structural Ensembles of Unfolded and Disordered Proteins Using Experimental Solution Data

Oufan Zhang, Mojtaba Haghighatlari, Jie Li +5

We have developed a Generative Recurrent Neural Networks (GRNN) that learns the probability of the next residue torsions from the pre…

physics.bio-ph2022★ 2 cited

Learning Correlations between Internal Coordinates to improve 3D Cartesian Coordinates for Proteins

Jie Li, Oufan Zhang, Seokyoung Lee +5

We consider a generic representation problem of internal coordinates (bond lengths, valence angles, and dihedral angles) and their transformation to 3-dimensional Cartesian coordin…

q-bio.BM2020★ 4 cited

Configurational Entropy of Folded Proteins and its Importance for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Meili Liu, Akshaya K. Das, James Lincoff +5

Many pairwise additive force fields are in active use for intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions (IDRs), some of which modify energetic terms to improve description o…

q-bio.BM2020★ 381 cited

Comparative Roles of Charge, and Hydrophobic Interactions in Sequence-Dependent Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Suman Das, Yi-Hsuan Lin, Robert M. Vernon +2

Endeavoring toward a transferable, predictive coarse-grained explicit-chain model for biomolecular condensates underlain by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), we conducted mult…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 2 cited

Extended Experimental Inferential Structure Determination Method for Evaluating the Structural Ensembles of Disordered Protein States

James Lincoff, Mickael Krzeminski, Mojtaba Haghighatlari +5

Characterization of proteins with intrinsic or unfolded state disorder comprises a new frontier in structural biology, requiring the characterization of diverse and dynamic structu…

q-bio.BM2017★ 137 cited

Charge Pattern Matching as a "Fuzzy" Mode of Molecular Recognition for the Functional Phase Separations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Yi-Hsuan Lin, Jacob P. Brady, Julie D. Forman-Kay +1

Biologically functional liquid-liquid phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is driven by interactions encoded by their amino acid sequences. Little is curren…

q-bio.BM2016★ 145 cited

Random-phase-approximation theory for sequence-dependent, biologically functional liquid-liquid phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins

Yi-Hsuan Lin, Jianhui Song, Julie D. Forman-Kay +1

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are typically low in nonpolar/hydrophobic but relatively high in polar, charged, and aromatic amino acid compositions. Some IDPs undergo li…

q-bio.BM2016★ 304 cited

Sequence-specific polyampholyte phase separation in membraneless organelles

Yi-Hsuan Lin, Julie D. Forman-Kay, Hue Sun Chan

Liquid-liquid phase separation of charge/aromatic-enriched intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is critical in the biological function of membraneless organelles. Much of the p…