Preface Vladimir N. Uversky 1. Intrinsically disordered proteins of viruses: Involvement in the mechanism of cell regulation and pathogenesis Pushpendra Mani Mishra, Navneet C Verma, Chethana Rao, Vladimir N Uversky and Chayan K Nandi 2. Transient knots in intrinsically disordered proteins and neurodegeneration Marek Cieplak, Mateusz Chwastyk, Lukasz Mioduszewski and Belisa R. H. de Aquino 3. IDPs and their complexes in GPCR and nuclear receptor signaling Myriam Guillien, Albane le Maire, Assia Mouhand, Pau Bernadó, William Bourguet, Jean-Louis Banères and Nathalie Sibille 4. Intrinsic disorder-based design of stable globular proteins Galina S. Nagibina, Tatiana N. Melnik, Ksenia A. Glukhova, Vladimir N. Uversky and Bogdan S. Melnik 5. The pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disease: Disturbing the balance between phase separation and irreversible aggregation Chelsea J. Webber, Shuwen (Eric) Lei and Benjamin Wolozin 6. Context-dependent HOX transcription factor function in health and disease Sarah E. Bondos, Gabriela Geraldo Mendes and Amanda Jons 7. Dancing while self-eating: Protein intrinsic disorder in autophagy Hana Popelka 8. Intrinsic disorder in the nickel-dependent urease network Barbara Zambelli, Luca Mazzei and Stefano Ciurli 9. Disorder and cysteines in proteins: A design for orchestration of conformational see-saw and modulatory functions Anukool A. Bhopatkar, Vladimir N. Uversky and Vijayaraghavan Rangachari
Vladimir N. Uversky is a Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, USA. He obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Leningrad State University in Russia in 1986, then completed Ph.D. and Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.) degrees in Physics and Mathematics (field of study - Biophysics) at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1991) and the Institute Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1998), respectively. In 1998, he moved to the University of California Santa Cruz to study protein folding, misfolding, protein conformation diseases, and protein intrinsic disorder phenomena. In 2004, he was invited to join the Indiana University School of Medicine to primary work on intrinsically disordered proteins, and since 2010 has been on faculty at the University of South Florida. He has authored over 850 scientific publications and edited several books and book series on protein structure.