Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

Protein ensembles: how does nature harness thermodynamic fluctuations for life? The diverse functional roles of conformational ensembles in the cell

G Wei, W Xi, R Nussinov, B Ma - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
All soluble proteins populate conformational ensembles that together constitute the native
state. Their fluctuations in water are intrinsic thermodynamic phenomena, and the …

Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2

TR Alderson, I Pritišanac, Đ Kolarić… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database contains predicted structures for millions of
proteins. For the majority of human proteins that contain intrinsically disordered regions …

[PDF][PDF] Advanced ensemble modelling of flexible macromolecules using X-ray solution scattering

G Tria, HDT Mertens, M Kachala, DI Svergun - IUCrJ, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Dynamic ensembles of macromolecules mediate essential processes in biology.
Understanding the mechanisms driving the function and molecular interactions …

PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins

T Lazar, E Martínez-Pérez, F Quaglia… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Protein Ensemble Database (PED)(https://proteinensemble. org), which holds
structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), has been significantly …

Conformational ensembles of an intrinsically disordered protein consistent with NMR, SAXS, and single-molecule FRET

GNW Gomes, M Krzeminski, A Namini… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) have fluctuating heterogeneous conformations, which
makes their structural characterization challenging. Although challenging, characterization …

Structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins depend strongly on force field: a comparison to experiment

S Rauscher, V Gapsys, MJ Gajda… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are notoriously challenging to study both
experimentally and computationally. The structure of IDPs cannot be described by a single …

Relating sequence encoded information to form and function of intrinsically disordered proteins

RK Das, KM Ruff, RV Pappu - Current opinion in structural biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Compositions of IDPs fall into distinct classes.•Compositional classes encode
preferences for distinct conformational classes.•Functions of disordered proteins are …

Structure, dynamics, assembly, and evolution of protein complexes

JA Marsh, SA Teichmann - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The assembly of individual proteins into functional complexes is fundamental to nearly all
biological processes. In recent decades, many thousands of homomeric and heteromeric …

Global structure of the intrinsically disordered protein tau emerges from its local structure

LS Stelzl, LM Pietrek, A Holla, J Oroz, M Sikora… - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The paradigmatic disordered protein tau plays an important role in neuronal function and
neurodegenerative diseases. To disentangle the factors controlling the balance between …