A proteome scale study reveals how plastic surfaces and agitation promote protein aggregation

M Schvartz, F Saudrais, S Devineau, JC Aude… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Protein aggregation in biotherapeutics can reduce their activity and effectiveness. It may
also promote immune reactions responsible for severe adverse effects. The impact of plastic …

Continuity of Short-Time Dynamics Crossing the Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation in Charge-Tuned Protein Solutions

I Mosca, C Beck, NH Jalarvo… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) constitutes a crucial phenomenon in biological self-
organization, not only intervening in the formation of membraneless organelles but also …

[HTML][HTML] Testing mixing rules for structural and dynamical quantities in multi-component crowded protein solutions

A Gulotta, S Bucciarelli, F Roosen-Runge… - APL …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Crowding effects significantly influence the phase behavior and the structural and dynamic
properties of the concentrated protein mixtures present in the cytoplasm of cells or in the …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion of proteins in crowded solutions studied by docking-based modeling

A Singh, PJ Kundrotas, IA Vakser - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The diffusion of proteins is significantly affected by macromolecular crowding. Molecular
simulations accounting for protein interactions at atomic resolution are useful for …

[HTML][HTML] Short-time self-diffusion in binary colloidal suspensions

V Ruzzi, S Buzzaccaro, P Moretti… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The Brownian dynamics of a colloidal particle is consistently modified by the presence in the
solvent of other particles of comparable size, whose effects on the particle diffusion …

Effects of flexibility in coarse-grained models for bovine serum albumin and immunoglobulin G

F Hirschmann, H Lopez, F Roosen-Runge… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We construct a coarse-grained, structure-based, low-resolution, 6-bead flexible model of
bovine serum albumin (BSA, PDB: 4F5S), which is a popular example of a globular protein …

Notes on Fitting and Analysis Frameworks for QENS Spectra of (Soft) Colloid Suspensions

C Beck, K Pounot, I Mosca, NH Jalarvo… - EPJ Web of …, 2022 - epj-conferences.org
With continuously improving signal-to-noise ratios, a statistically sound analysis of quasi-
elastic neutron scattering (QENS) spectra requires to fit increasingly complex models which …

Effects of Polydispersity on Diffusion

C Beck - Programme 4 Tuesday 12 December 2023 5 … - workshops.ill.fr
The diffusive properties of colloid suspension depend on several parameters such as
temperature [1], additives [2, 3] or crowding [4]. However, in biological environments, the …