Intrinsically disordered regions are poised to act as sensors of cellular chemistry

D Moses, GM Ginell, AS Holehouse… - Trends in biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDRs) are abundant in eukaryotic
proteomes and play a wide variety of essential roles. Instead of folding into a stable …

Phospholipid membranes as chemically and functionally tunable materials

D Huster, S Maiti, A Herrmann - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The sheet‐like lipid bilayer is the fundamental structural component of all cell membranes.
Its building blocks are phospholipids and cholesterol. Their amphiphilic structure …

Intrinsically disordered region amplifies membrane remodeling to augment selective ER-phagy

SA Poveda-Cuevas, K Lohachova, B Markusic… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) play a pivotal role in organellar remodeling. They
transduce signals across membranes, scaffold signaling complexes, and mediate vesicular …

Recalibration of MARTINI-3 Parameters for Improved Interactions between Peripheral Proteins and Lipid Bilayers

J Soni, S Gupta, T Mandal - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The MARTINI force field is one of the most used coarse-grained models for biomolecular
simulations. Many limitations of the model including the protein–protein overaggregation …

Remodeling of the plasma membrane by surface-bound protein monomers and oligomers: the critical role of intrinsically disordered regions

MK Araya, Y Zhou, AA Gorfe - The Journal of membrane biology, 2022 - Springer
The plasma membrane (PM) of cells is a dynamic structure whose morphology and
composition is in constant flux. PM morphologic changes are particularly relevant for the …

The Functionality of Membrane-Inserting Proteins and Peptides: Curvature Sensing, Generation, and Pore Formation

C Has, SL Das - The Journal of Membrane Biology, 2023 - Springer
Proteins and peptides with hydrophobic and amphiphilic segments are responsible for many
biological functions. The sensing and generation of membrane curvature are the functions of …

Probing the interactions between amyloidogenic proteins and bio-membranes

L Ma, X Li, RB Petersen, A Peng, K Huang - Biophysical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein misfolding diseases (PMDs) in humans are characterized by the deposition of
protein aggregates in tissues, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 …

Digital nanoreactors to control absolute stoichiometry and spatiotemporal behavior of DNA receptors within lipid bilayers

V Maingi, Z Zhang, C Thachuk, N Sarraf… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Interactions between membrane proteins are essential for cell survival but are often poorly
understood. Even the biologically functional ratio of components within a multi-subunit …

Analyzing Lipid Membrane Defects via a Coarse-Grained to Triangulated Surface Map: The Role of Lipid Order and Local Curvature in Molecular Binding

RWI van der Pol, BW Brinkmann… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lipid packing defects are known to serve as quantitative indicators for protein binding to lipid
membranes. This paper presents a protocol for mapping molecular lipid detail onto a …

Folding of N-terminally acetylated α-synuclein upon interaction with lipid membranes

Z Tang, Z Fang, X Wu, J Liu, L Tian, X Li, J Diao, B Ji… - Biophysical …, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (α-syn) is an abundant presynaptic neuronal protein whose
aggregation is strongly associated with Parkinson's disease. It has been proposed that lipid …