Molecules and Cells

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Quantitative Frameworks for Multivalent Macromolecular Interactions in Biological Linear Lattice Systems

  • Choi, Jaejun (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Ryeonghyeon (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Koh, Junseock (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2022.03.06
  • Accepted : 2022.03.28
  • Published : 2022.07.31
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Abstract

Multivalent macromolecular interactions underlie dynamic regulation of diverse biological processes in ever-changing cellular states. These interactions often involve binding of multiple proteins to a linear lattice including intrinsically disordered proteins and the chromosomal DNA with many repeating recognition motifs. Quantitative understanding of such multivalent interactions on a linear lattice is crucial for exploring their unique regulatory potentials in the cellular processes. In this review, the distinctive molecular features of the linear lattice system are first discussed with a particular focus on the overlapping nature of potential protein binding sites within a lattice. Then, we introduce two general quantitative frameworks, combinatorial and conditional probability models, dealing with the overlap problem and relating the binding parameters to the experimentally measurable properties of the linear lattice-protein interactions. To this end, we present two specific examples where the quantitative models have been applied and further extended to provide biological insights into specific cellular processes. In the first case, the conditional probability model was extended to highlight the significant impact of nonspecific binding of transcription factors to the chromosomal DNA on gene-specific transcriptional activities. The second case presents the recently developed combinatorial models to unravel the complex organization of target protein binding sites within an intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of a nucleoporin. In particular, these models have suggested a unique function of IDRs as a molecular switch coupling distinct cellular processes. The quantitative models reviewed here are envisioned to further advance for dissection and functional studies of more complex systems including phase-separated biomolecular condensates.

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This work was supported by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation and Research (SSTF-BA1802-09) and the National Research Foundation (2019R1C1C1011640).

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