Membrane interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins: The example of alpha-synuclein

T Das, D Eliezer - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Peripheral membrane proteins associate reversibly with biological membranes that,
compared to protein binding partners, are structurally labile and devoid of specific binding …

Site-directed fluorescence approaches for dynamic structural biology of membrane peptides and proteins

H Raghuraman, S Chatterjee, A Das - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Membrane proteins mediate a number of cellular functions and are associated with several
diseases and also play a crucial role in pathogenicity. Due to their importance in cellular …

Dissection of the amyloid formation pathway in AL amyloidosis

P Kazman, RM Absmeier, H Engelhardt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In antibody light chain (AL) amyloidosis, overproduced light chain (LC) fragments
accumulate as fibrils in organs and tissues of patients. In vitro, AL fibril formation is a slow …

Interaction of food colorant indigo carmine with human and bovine serum albumins: A multispectroscopic, calorimetric, and theoretical investigation

G Jana, S Sing, A Das, A Basu - International Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work we have studied the interaction of the food dye Indigo-Carmine (IndC) with the
most studied model transport proteins ie human and bovine serum albumin (HSA & BSA). A …

Biophysical and molecular modelling analysis of the binding of β-resorcylic acid with bovine serum albumin

I Hussain, S Fatima, S Ahmed, M Tabish - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
The bovine serum albumin (BSA) is a model carrier protein that transports and deposits the
various endogenous and exogenous ligands in the body. β-resorcylic acid (BR) is a phyto …

Does Viscosity Decoupling Guarantee Dynamic Heterogeneity? A Clue through an Excitation and Emission Wavelength-Dependent Time-Resolved Fluorescence …

E Tarif, N Das, P Sen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
Traditionally, deviation from Stokes–Einstein–Debye (SED) relation in terms of viscosity
dependence of medium dynamics, ie, τ x∝(η T) p with p≠ 1, is taken as a signature of …

The dynamism of intrinsically disordered proteins: binding-induced folding, amyloid formation, and phase separation

S Mukhopadhyay - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or natively unfolded proteins do not undergo
autonomous folding into a well-defined 3-D structure and challenge the conventional …

Lysozyme–luteolin binding: molecular insights into the complexation process and the inhibitory effects of luteolin towards protein modification

S Das, S Pahari, S Sarmah, MA Rohman… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the proposed work, the complexation of bioactive flavonoid luteolin with hen egg white
lysozyme (HEWL) along with its inhibitory influence on HEWL modification has been …

Direct visualization of both DNA and RNA quadruplexes in human cells via an uncommon spectroscopic method

A Laguerre, JMY Wong, D Monchaud - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Guanine-rich DNA or RNA sequences can fold into higher-order, four-stranded structures
termed quadruplexes that are suspected to play pivotal roles in cellular mechanisms …

Recapitulation of selective nuclear import and export with a perfectly repeated 12mer GLFG peptide

SC Ng, T Güttler, D Görlich - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The permeability barrier of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) controls nucleocytoplasmic
transport. It retains inert macromolecules while allowing facilitated passage of importins and …