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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03354-4
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- Academia Sinica Core Facility and Innovative Instrument Project [AS-CFII-108-112]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [109-2113-M-010-003, 110-2113-M-A49A-504-MY3, 109-2326-B-010-002 -MY3]
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The intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) among paralogs have different physicochemical properties but converge on the same biophysical function. The diversity of IDRs can lead to different traits, but they ultimately evolve to achieve a converged function.
A comparison of structure-function relationship for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) among paralogs shows that differences in physicochemical properties of the IDR between paralogs are compensated for to converge on the same biophysical function. Paralogs, arising from gene duplications, increase the functional diversity of proteins. Protein functions in paralog families have been extensively studied, but little is known about the roles that intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) play in their paralogs. Without a folded structure to restrain them, IDRs mutate more diversely along with evolution. However, how the diversity of IDRs in a paralog family affects their functions is unexplored. Using the RNA-binding protein Musashi family as an example, we applied multiple structural techniques and phylogenetic analysis to show how members in a paralog family have evolved their IDRs to different physicochemical properties but converge to the same function. In this example, the lower prion-like tendency of Musashi-1's IDRs, rather than Musashi-2's, is compensated by its higher alpha-helical propensity to assist their assembly. Our work suggests that, no matter how diverse they become, IDRs could evolve different traits to a converged function, such as liquid-liquid phase separation.
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