Chemical composition is maintained in poorly conserved intrinsically disordered regions and suggests a means for their classification.

Abstract:

:Intrinsically disordered regions in proteins are known to evolve rapidly while maintaining their function. However, given their lack of structure and sequence conservation, the means through which they stay functional is not clear. Poor sequence conservation also hampers the classification of these regions into functional groups. We studied the sequence conservation of a large number of predicted and experimentally determined intrinsically disordered regions from the human proteome in 7 other eukaryotes. We determined the chemical composition of disordered regions by calculating the fraction of positive, negative, polar, hydrophobic and special (Pro, Gly) residues, and studied its maintenance in orthologous proteins. A significant number of disordered regions with low sequence conservation showed considerable similarity in their chemical composition between orthologs. Clustering disordered regions based on their chemical composition resulted in functionally distinct groups. Finally, disordered regions showed location preference within the proteins that was dependent on their chemical composition. We conclude that preserving the overall chemical composition is one of the ways through which intrinsically disordered regions maintain their flexibility and function through evolution. We propose that the chemical composition of disordered regions can be used to classify them into functional groups and, together with conservation and location, may be used to define a general classification scheme.

journal_name

Mol Biosyst

journal_title

Molecular bioSystems

authors

Moesa HA,Wakabayashi S,Nakai K,Patil A

doi

10.1039/c2mb25202c

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-10-30 00:00:00

pages

3262-73

issue

12

eissn

1742-206X

issn

1742-2051

journal_volume

8

pub_type

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