Heterogeneity in protein folding and unfolding reactions

S Bhatia, JB Udgaonkar - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins have dynamic structures that undergo chain motions on time scales spanning from
picoseconds to seconds. Resolving the resultant conformational heterogeneity is essential …

Successes and challenges in simulating the folding of large proteins

A Gershenson, S Gosavi, P Faccioli… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Computational simulations of protein folding can be used to interpret experimental folding
results, to design new folding experiments, and to test the effects of mutations and small …

High-Accuracy Prediction of Stabilizing Surface Mutations to the Three-Helix Bundle, UBA (1), with EmCAST

MT Rothfuss, DC Becht, B Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The accurate modeling of energetic contributions to protein structure is a fundamental
challenge in computational approaches to protein analysis and design. We describe a …

Cooperativity and folding kinetics in a multidomain protein with interwoven chain topology

Z Liu, D Thirumalai - ACS Central Science, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although a large percentage of eukaryotic proteomes consist of proteins with multiple
domains, not much is known about their assembly mechanism, especially those with …

Single‐Molecule FRET of Membrane Transport Proteins

K Bartels, T Lasitza‐Male, H Hofmann, C Löw - ChemBioChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Uncovering the structure and function of biomolecules is a fundamental goal in structural
biology. Membrane‐embedded transport proteins are ubiquitous in all kingdoms of life …

Understanding the molecular basis of folding cooperativity through a comparative analysis of a multidomain protein and its isolated domains

D Santorelli, L Marcocci, V Pennacchietti… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Although cooperativity is a well-established and general property of folding, our current
understanding of this feature in multidomain folding is still relatively limited. In fact, there are …

Hidden kinetic traps in multidomain folding highlight the presence of a misfolded but functionally competent intermediate

C Gautier, F Troilo, F Cordier… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Although more than 75% of the proteome is composed of multidomain proteins, current
knowledge of protein folding is based primarily on studies of isolated domains. In this work …

Understanding the heterogeneity intrinsic to protein folding

S Bhatia, JB Udgaonkar - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Relating the native fold of a protein to its amino acid sequence remains a fundamental
problem in biology. While computer algorithms have demonstrated recently their prowess in …

Characterization of the structural forces governing the reversibility of the thermal unfolding of the human acidic fibroblast growth factor

S Agrawal, V Govind Kumar, RK Gundampati… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Human acidic fibroblast growth factor (hFGF1) is an all beta-sheet protein that is involved in
the regulation of key cellular processes including cell proliferation and wound healing …

Retracing the evolution of a modern periplasmic binding protein

F Michel, S Romero‐Romero, B Höcker - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Investigating the evolution of structural features in modern multidomain proteins helps to
understand their immense diversity and functional versatility. The class of periplasmic …