Structural proteomics methods to interrogate the conformation and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins

Beveridge, Rebecca and Calabrese, Antonio N. (2021) Structural proteomics methods to interrogate the conformation and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins. Frontiers in Chemistry, 9. 603639. ISSN 2296-2646 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.603639)

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Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions of intrinsic disorder (IDRs) are abundant in proteomes and are essential for many biological processes. Thus, they are often implicated in disease mechanisms, including neurodegeneration and cancer. The flexible nature of IDPs and IDRs provides many advantages, including (but not limited to) overcoming steric restrictions in binding, facilitating posttranslational modifications, and achieving high binding specificity with low affinity. IDPs adopt a heterogeneous structural ensemble, in contrast to typical folded proteins, making it challenging to interrogate their structure using conventional tools. Structural mass spectrometry (MS) methods are playing an increasingly important role in characterizing the structure and function of IDPs and IDRs, enabled by advances in the design of instrumentation and the development of new workflows, including in native MS, ion mobility MS, top-down MS, hydrogen-deuterium exchange MS, crosslinking MS, and covalent labeling. Here, we describe the advantages of these methods that make them ideal to study IDPs and highlight recent applications where these tools have underpinned new insights into IDP structure and function that would be difficult to elucidate using other methods.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:75816
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    11 March 2021
    Published
    19 January 2021
    Accepted
    7 September 2020
    Submitted
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:17 Mar 2021 08:39
    Last modified:09 Apr 2024 02:06
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75816
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