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Interactome screen reveals over 20,000 motif-mediated interactions across human disordered regions, highlighting diverse binding modes and regulatory functions within the dark proteome.
. However, the global interaction landscape of human SLiMs remains largely uncharted. Here we present the Atlas of SLiM-mediated Human protein-protein Interactions (ASHI), which maps more than 20,000 interactions by screening over 800 human protein domains against a library of one million peptides tiling the human disordered proteome. ASHI expands the SLiM interactome, uncovers novel binding modes for known peptide-binding domains, and reveals unexpected peptide-binding activities in enzymes, chaperones, RNA-binding proteins, and modification-reader domains. Furthermore, intrinsically disordered regions emerge as densely encoded interaction platforms where interaction specificity is governed by diverse mechanisms, including key motif determinants, flanking residues, competition, and multivalency. These data provide an unprecedented foundation for modeling dynamic interaction networks, interpreting disease-associated variants, and decoding the dark proteome.
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