Conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins and flexible multidomain proteins

FE Thomasen, K Lindorff-Larsen - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and multidomain proteins with flexible linkers show a
high level of structural heterogeneity and are best described by ensembles consisting of …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear magnetic resonance/single molecule fluorescence combinations to study dynamic protein systems

IM Vedel, A Papagiannoula, S Naudi-Fabra… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many proteins require different structural states or conformations for function, and
intrinsically disordered proteins, ie proteins without stable three-dimensional structure, are …

Driving forces behind phase separation of the carboxy-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II

D Flores-Solis, IP Lushpinskaia, AA Polyansky… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Eukaryotic gene regulation and pre-mRNA transcription depend on the carboxy-terminal
domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase (Pol) II. Due to its highly repetitive, intrinsically disordered …

A natural polyphenol activates and enhances GPX4 to mitigate amyloid-β induced ferroptosis in Alzheimer's disease

P Baruah, H Moorthy, M Ramesh, D Padhi… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent cell death, plays a crucial role in the pathology of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Several characteristics of AD, including excessive iron …

IDPConformerGenerator: a flexible software suite for sampling the conformational space of disordered protein states

JMC Teixeira, ZH Liu, A Namini, J Li… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The power of structural information for informing biological mechanisms is clear for stable
folded macromolecules, but similar structure–function insight is more difficult to obtain for …

[HTML][HTML] Structural ensembles of disordered proteins from hierarchical chain growth and simulation

LM Pietrek, LS Stelzl, G Hummer - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Disordered proteins and nucleic acids play key roles in cellular function and disease. Here,
we review recent advances in the computational exploration of the conformational dynamics …

Network of hotspot interactions cluster tau amyloid folds

V Mullapudi, J Vaquer-Alicea, V Bommareddy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy has revealed unprecedented molecular insight into the
conformations of β-sheet-rich protein amyloids linked to neurodegenerative diseases. It …

Highly selective butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors related to Amaryllidaceae alkaloids-Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation

F Pidany, J Kroustkova, A Al Mamun… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is one of the most frequently implicated enzymes in the
advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD). As part of our endeavors to develop new drug …

The biophysics of disordered proteins from the point of view of single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

J Cubuk, MD Stuchell-Brereton… - Essays in …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions (IDRs) have emerged as key players
across many biological functions and diseases. Differently from structured proteins …

Hierarchical assembly of single-stranded RNA

LM Pietrek, LS Stelzl, G Hummer - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) plays a major role in the flow of genetic information–most
notably, in the form of messenger RNA (mRNA)–and in the regulation of biological …