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Proteome-scale quantification of the interactions driving condensate formation of intrinsically disordered proteins

Norrild, R. K.; von Buelow, S.; Halldorsson, E.; Lindorff-Larsen, K.; Rogers, J. M.; Buell, A. K.

2024-12-21 biophysics
10.1101/2024.12.21.629870 bioRxiv
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Intrinsically disordered protein regions facilitate cellular organization through phase separation into biomolecular condensates. However, the molecular interactions driving this process remain poorly understood because of experimental limitations. Here, we advance experimental throughput by several orders of magnitude by developing Condensate Partitioning by mRNA-Display (CPmD). The method allows analysis of partitioning of hundred thousand peptides derived from the disordered proteome into reconstituted condensates. Our results demonstrate that the amino acid content, rather than specific sequence, primarily determines partitioning behavior. Importantly, quantification of the partitioning energies of peptides allows us to decipher the molecular grammar of the relevant interactions, allowing accurate prediction of the formation of condensates of diverse full-length disordered protein regions. The results reveal how physicochemical properties of disordered regions encode biological functions through formation of biomolecular condensates.

Published in Nature Communications (predicted rank #1) · training set

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