Regulation of membrane protein structure and function by their lipid nano-environment

I Levental, E Lyman - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Transmembrane proteins comprise~ 30% of the mammalian proteome, mediating
metabolism, signalling, transport and many other functions required for cellular life. The …

Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

Computational modeling of realistic cell membranes

SJ Marrink, V Corradi, PCT Souza, HI Ingolfsson… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cell membranes contain a large variety of lipid types and are crowded with proteins,
endowing them with the plasticity needed to fulfill their key roles in cell functioning. The …

Prebiotic peptides: Molecular hubs in the origin of life

M Frenkel-Pinter, M Samanta, G Ashkenasy… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The fundamental roles that peptides and proteins play in today's biology makes it almost
indisputable that peptides were key players in the origin of life. Insofar as it is appropriate to …

Protein–ligand binding with the coarse-grained Martini model

PCT Souza, S Thallmair, P Conflitti… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The detailed understanding of the binding of small molecules to proteins is the key for the
development of novel drugs or to increase the acceptance of substrates by enzymes …

PyLipID: a python package for analysis of protein–lipid interactions from molecular dynamics simulations

W Song, RA Corey, TB Ansell, CK Cassidy… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipids play important modulatory and structural roles for membrane proteins. Molecular
dynamics simulations are frequently used to provide insights into the nature of these protein …

Lipids mediate supramolecular outer membrane protein assembly in bacteria

MN Webby, AO Oluwole, C Pedebos, PG Inns… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
β Barrel outer membrane proteins (OMPs) cluster into supramolecular assemblies that give
function to the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria. How such assemblies form …

Phospholipids and cholesterol: Inducers of cancer multidrug resistance and therapeutic targets

J Kopecka, P Trouillas, AČ Gašparović, E Gazzano… - Drug resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lipids, phospholipids and cholesterol in particular, are the predominant components of the
plasma membrane, wherein multidrug efflux transporters of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) …

Anionic phospholipids control mechanisms of GPCR-G protein recognition

N Thakur, AP Ray, L Sharp, B Jin, A Duong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are embedded in phospholipids that strongly
influence drug-stimulated signaling. Anionic lipids are particularly important for GPCR …

Structure and mechanism of respiratory III–IV supercomplexes in bioenergetic membranes

P Brzezinski, A Moe, P Adelroth - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the final steps of energy conservation in aerobic organisms, free energy from electron
transfer through the respiratory chain is transduced into a proton electrochemical gradient …