Thermal stability enhancement: Fundamental concepts of protein engineering strategies to manipulate the flexible structure

M Rahban, S Zolghadri, N Salehi, F Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the temperature by just a few degrees may lead to structural perturbation or
unfolding of the protein and consequent loss of function. The concepts of flexibility and …

NMR illuminates intrinsic disorder

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has long been instrumental in the characterization of
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). This …

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 …

Competing interactions give rise to two-state behavior and switch-like transitions in charge-rich intrinsically disordered proteins

X Zeng, KM Ruff, RV Pappu - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The most commonly occurring intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are polyampholytes,
which are defined by the duality of low net charge per residue and high fractions of charged …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear magnetic resonance/single molecule fluorescence combinations to study dynamic protein systems

IM Vedel, A Papagiannoula, S Naudi-Fabra… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many proteins require different structural states or conformations for function, and
intrinsically disordered proteins, ie proteins without stable three-dimensional structure, are …

Insights into the molecular mechanism of amyloid filament formation: Segmental folding of α-synuclein on lipid membranes

L Antonschmidt, R Dervişoğlu, V Sant… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Recent advances in the structural biology of disease-relevant α-synuclein fibrils have
revealed a variety of structures, yet little is known about the process of fibril aggregate …

The ambivalent role of proline residues in an intrinsically disordered protein: from disorder promoters to compaction facilitators

B Mateos, C Conrad-Billroth, M Schiavina… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) carry out many biological functions. They lack a
stable three-dimensional structure, but rather adopt many different conformations in dynamic …

Single-molecule detection of ultrafast biomolecular dynamics with nanophotonics

MF Nüesch, MT Ivanović, JB Claude… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a versatile technique for
probing the structure and dynamics of biomolecules even in heterogeneous ensembles …

Hierarchical ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution in molecular dynamics simulations

LM Pietrek, LS Stelzl, G Hummer - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) constitute a large fraction of the human proteome and
are critical in the regulation of cellular processes. A detailed understanding of the …

Behavior of protein-inspired synthetic random heteropolymers

SL Hilburg, Z Ruan, T Xu, A Alexander-Katz - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Random heteropolymers (RHPs) are an interesting class of materials useful in many
theories and applications. While previous studies typically focused on simplified RHP …