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Disorder: The Dark Matter of the Protein World
Proteins are typically imagined as having defined 3D structures. But ~30% of proteins are disordered and conformationally flexible. We are interested in how disorder confers protein function.
Rosenbaum, J. C. and R. G. Gardner. 2011.
How a disordered ubiquitin ligase maintains order in nuclear protein homeostasis.
Nucleus 2:264-270.
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Rosenbaum, J. C., Fredrickson, E. K., Oeser, M. L., Garrett-Engele, C. M., Locke, M. N., Richardson, L. A., Nelson, Z. W., Hetrick, E. D., Milac, T. I., Gottschling, D. E., and R. G. Gardner. 2011.
Disorder Targets Misorder in Nuclear Quality Control Degradation: A Disordered Ubiquitin Ligase Directly Recognizes Its Misfolded Substrates.
Molecular Cell 41:93-106.
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A conserved deubiquitinating enzyme uses intrinsic disordered regions to scaffold multiple protein-interaction sites. JBC 290: 20601-20612.
Dynamic sumoylation of a conserved transcription corepressor prevents persistent inclusion formation during hyperosmotic stress. PLoS Genetics 12: e1005809.
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