Protein aggregation and its inhibition in biopharmaceutics

W Wang - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2005 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is arguably the most common and troubling manifestation of protein
instability, encountered in almost all stages of protein drug development. Protein …

Protein disulfide isomerase: a critical evaluation of its function in disulfide bond formation

F Hatahet, LW Ruddock - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Disulfide bond formation is probably involved in the biogenesis of approximately one third of
human proteins. A central player in this essential process is protein disulfide isomerase or …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein folding and aggregation

B van den Berg, RJ Ellis, CM Dobson - The EMBO journal, 1999 - embopress.org
We have studied the effects of polysaccharide and protein crowding agents on the refolding
of oxidized and reduced hen lysozyme in order to test the prediction that association …

[HTML][HTML] The human PDI family: versatility packed into a single fold

C Appenzeller-Herzog, L Ellgaard - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2008 - Elsevier
The enzymes of the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) family are thiol–disulfide
oxidoreductases of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). They contain a CXXC active-site …

Accurate prediction of protein folding mechanisms by simple structure-based statistical mechanical models

K Ooka, M Arai - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Recent breakthroughs in highly accurate protein structure prediction using deep neural
networks have made considerable progress in solving the structure prediction component of …

The 'fingerprint'that X-rays can leave on structures

RBG Ravelli, SM McSweeney - Structure, 2000 - cell.com
Background: Exposure of biomacromolecules to ionising radiation results in damage that is
initiated by free radicals and progresses through a variety of mechanisms. A widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Macromolecular crowding perturbs protein refolding kinetics: implications for folding inside the cell

B Van Den Berg, R Wain, CM Dobson, RJ Ellis - The EMBO journal, 2000 - embopress.org
We have studied the effects of macromolecular crowding on protein folding kinetics by
studying the oxidative refolding of hen lysozyme in the absence and presence of high …

Structural and functional implications of C-terminal regions of α-synuclein

TD Kim, SR Paik, CH Yang - Biochemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
Aggregation of α-synuclein is thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's
disease (PD), which is characterized by the presence of intracytoplasmic Lewy bodies (LB) …

The protein disulfide isomerase family: from proteostasis to pathogenesis

M Matsusaki, S Kanemura, M Kinoshita, YH Lee… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
In mammalian cells, nearly one-third of proteins are inserted into the endoplasmic reticulum
(ER), where they undergo oxidative folding and chaperoning assisted by approximately 20 …

Pathway engineering facilitates efficient protein expression in Pichia pastoris

C Liu, JS Gong, C Su, H Li, H Li, ZM Rao, ZH Xu… - Applied Microbiology …, 2022 - Springer
Pichia pastoris has been recognized as an important platform for the production of various
heterologous proteins in recent years. The strong promoter AOX1, induced by methanol …