Sialylated glycan bindings from SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to blood and endothelial cells govern the severe morbidities of COVID-19

DE Scheim, P Vottero, AD Santin, AG Hirsh - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Consistent with well-established biochemical properties of coronaviruses, sialylated glycan
attachments between SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (SP) and host cells are key to the virus's …

Encoding Structure in Intrinsically Disordered Protein Biomaterials

RL Strader, Y Shmidov, A Chilkoti - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In nature, proteins range from those with highly ordered secondary and tertiary
structures to those that completely lack a well-defined three-dimensional structure, termed …

Intrinsic disorder in PRAME and its role in uveal melanoma

M Antonietti, DJT Gonzalez, M Djulbegovic… - Cell Communication and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Introduction The PReferentially expressed Antigen in MElanoma (PRAME) protein
has been shown to be an independent biomarker for increased risk of metastasis in Class 1 …

Exploring the World of Membrane Proteins: Techniques and Methods for Understanding Structure, Function, and Dynamics

I Boulos, J Jabbour, S Khoury, N Mikhael, V Tishkova… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
In eukaryotic cells, membrane proteins play a crucial role. They fall into three categories:
intrinsic proteins, extrinsic proteins, and proteins that are essential to the human genome …

The magic of proteases: from a procoagulant and anticoagulant factor V to an equitable treatment of its inherited deficiency

JA De Pablo-Moreno, A Miguel-Batuecas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Proteostasis, ie, the homeostasis of proteins, responsible for ensuring protein turnover, is
regulated by proteases, which also participate in the etiopathogenesis of multiple conditions …

Fluorescence-based protein stability monitoring—a review

N Gooran, K Kopra - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Proteins are large biomolecules with a specific structure that is composed of one or more
long amino acid chains. Correct protein structures are directly linked to their correct function …

An in-silico approach to the potential modulatory effect of taurine on sclerostin (SOST) and its probable role during osteoporosis

M Adhish, I Manjubala - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The cysteine-knot containing negative regulator of the Wnt (Wingless-related integration
site) signaling pathway, sclerostin (SOST) is an emerging therapeutic target for …

Utilizing the scale-invariant feature transform algorithm to align distance matrices facilitates systematic protein structure comparison

Z Guo, Y Wang, G Ou - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein structure comparison is pivotal for deriving homological relationships,
elucidating protein functions, and understanding evolutionary developments. The …

Illuminating the functional landscape of the dark proteome across the Animal Tree of Life through natural language processing models

GI Martínez-Redondo, I Barrios-Núñez… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background Understanding how coding genes and their functions evolve over time is a key
aspect of evolutionary biology. Protein coding genes poorly understood or characterized at …

Protein aggregates and aggrephagy in myopathies

S Gibertini, A Ruggieri, M Cheli, L Maggi - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
A number of muscular disorders are hallmarked by the aggregation of misfolded proteins
within muscle fibers. A specialized form of macroautophagy, termed aggrephagy, is …