Identification and quantification of proteoforms by mass spectrometry

LV Schaffer, RJ Millikin, RM Miller, LC Anderson… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A proteoform is a defined form of a protein derived from a given gene with a specific amino
acid sequence and localized post‐translational modifications. In top‐down proteomic …

Polyproline-II helix in proteins: structure and function

AA Adzhubei, MJE Sternberg, AA Makarov - Journal of molecular biology, 2013 - Elsevier
The poly-l-proline type II (PPII) helix in recent years has emerged clearly as a structural class
not only of fibrillar proteins (in collagen, PPII is a dominant conformation) but also of the …

Tuning the flexibility of glycine-serine linkers to allow rational design of multidomain proteins

M Van Rosmalen, M Krom, M Merkx - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Flexible polypeptide linkers composed of glycine and serine are important components of
engineered multidomain proteins. We have previously shown that the conformational …

Are protein force fields getting better? A systematic benchmark on 524 diverse NMR measurements

KA Beauchamp, YS Lin, R Das… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Recent hardware and software advances have enabled simulation studies of protein
systems on biophysically relevant time scales, often revealing the need for improved force …

Exploring free-energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution using NMR spectroscopy

MR Jensen, M Zweckstetter, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The last 15 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of protein biochemistry,
with the realization that an unexpectedly high fraction of the human genome codes for …

Structure and energetics of the hydrogen-bonded backbone in protein folding

DW Bolen, GD Rose - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2008 - annualreviews.org
We seek to understand the link between protein thermodynamics and protein structure in
molecular detail. A classical approach to this problem involves assessing changes in protein …

Light-activated DNA binding in a designed allosteric protein

D Strickland, K Moffat… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
An understanding of how allostery, the conformational coupling of distant functional sites,
arises in highly evolvable systems is of considerable interest in areas ranging from cell …

Describing intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution by NMR

MR Jensen, RWH Ruigrok, M Blackledge - Current opinion in structural …, 2013 - Elsevier
There is growing interest in the development of physical methods to study the
conformational behaviour and biological activity of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). In …

Predictive atomic resolution descriptions of intrinsically disordered hTau40 and α-synuclein in solution from NMR and small angle scattering

M Schwalbe, V Ozenne, S Bibow, M Jaremko… - Structure, 2014 - cell.com
The development of molecular descriptions of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is
essential for elucidating conformational transitions that characterize common …

Statistical coil model of the unfolded state: resolving the reconciliation problem

AK Jha, A Colubri, KF Freed… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
An unfolded state ensemble is generated by using a self-avoiding statistical coil model that
is based on backbone conformational frequencies in a coil library, a subset of the Protein …