Disordered Nucleiome: Abundance of Intrinsic Disorder in the DNA- and RNA-binding Proteins in 1121 Species from Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Keywords
DNA-binding proteins, Intrinsically disorder, Intrinsically disordered proteins, Nucleiome, RNA-binding proteins, Systems biology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201500177
Abstract
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are abundant in various proteomes, where they play numerous important roles and complement biological activities of ordered proteins. Among functions assigned to IDPs are interactions with nucleic acids. However, often, such assignments are made based on the guilty-by-association principle. The validity of the extension of these correlations to all nucleic acid binding proteins has never been analyzed on a large scale across all domains of life. To fill this gap, we perform a comprehensive computational analysis of the abundance of intrinsic disorder and intrinsically disordered domains in nucleiomes (∼548 000 nucleic acid binding proteins) of 1121 species from Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota. Nucleiome is a whole complement of proteins involved in interactions with nucleic acids. We show that relative to other proteins in the corresponding proteomes, the DNA-binding proteins have significantly increased disorder content and are significantly enriched in disordered domains in Eukaryotes but not in Archaea and Bacteria. The RNA-binding proteins are significantly enriched in the disordered domains in Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota, while the overall abundance of disorder in these proteins is significantly increased in Bacteria, Archaea, animals and fungi. The high abundance of disorder in nucleiomes supports the notion that the nucleic acid binding proteins often require intrinsic disorder for their functions and regulation.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Proteomics, v. 16, issue 10, p. 1486-1498
Scholar Commons Citation
Wang, Chen; Uversky, Vladimir N.; and Kurgan, Lukasz, "Disordered Nucleiome: Abundance of Intrinsic Disorder in the DNA- and RNA-binding Proteins in 1121 Species from Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea" (2016). Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications. 350.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mme_facpub/350
