Analysis of the equilibrium and kinetics of the ankyrin repeat protein myotrophin

M Faccin, P Bruscolini, A Pelizzola - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We apply the Wako-Saito-Muñoz-Eaton model to the study of myotrophin, a small ankyrin
repeat protein, whose folding equilibrium and kinetics have been recently characterized …

Controlling dissociation channels of gas-phase protein complexes using charge manipulation

SK Fegan, M Thachuk - Journal of The American Society for Mass …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained simulations with charge hopping were performed for a positively charged
tetrameric transthyretin (TTR) protein complex with a total charge of+ 20. Charges were …

Chloroperoxidase-Catalyzed Epoxidation of Cis-β-Methylstyrene: NH–S Hydrogen Bonds and Proximal Helix Dipole Change the Catalytic Mechanism and …

AN Morozov, AD Pardillo… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Proximal hydrogen bonding of the axial sulfur with the backbone amides (NH–S) is a
conserved feature of heme-thiolate enzymes such as chloroperoxidase (CPO) and …

Thermodynamics of a conformational change using a random walk in energy-reaction coordinate space: Application to methane dimer hydrophobic interactions

AN Morozov, SH Lin - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
A random walk sampling algorithm allows the extraction of the density of states distribution
in energy-reaction coordinate space. As a result, the temperature dependences of …

How the proximal pocket may influence the enantiospecificities of chloroperoxidase-catalyzed epoxidations of olefins

AN Morozov, DC Chatfield - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Chloroperoxidase-catalyzed enantiospecific epoxidations of olefins are of significant
biotechnological interest. Typical enantiomeric excesses are in the range of 66%–97% and …

Molecular dynamics insight into the role of tertiary (foldon) interactions on unfolding in cytochrome c

MY Tsai, AN Morozov, KY Chu, SH Lin - Chemical Physics Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
Hydrogen exchange experiments reveal the existence of a foldon structure in Cytochrome c.
We performed constant temperature Molecular Dynamics simulations of Cytochrome c to …

A generic rotamer model to explain the temperature dependence of BSA protein fluorescence

YC Chou, TY Lin, MY Tsai - Journal of the Chinese Chemical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein fluorescence signals essential information about the conformational dynamics of
proteins. Different types of intrinsic fluorophores reflect different protein local or global …

Thermodynamics of protein folding using a modified Wako-Saitô-Muñoz-Eaton model

MY Tsai, JM Yuan, Y Teranishi, SH Lin - Journal of biological physics, 2012 - Springer
Herein, we propose a modified version of the Wako-Saitô-Muñoz-Eaton (WSME) model. The
proposed model introduces an empirical temperature parameter for the hypothetical …

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Folding and Aggregation

MY Tsai, JM Yuan, SH Lin - … Studies on Folding, Misfolding, and Self …, 2017 - World Scientific
Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of proteins affect their folding and aggregation
processes, which are responsible for a range of biological functions in cells. This chapter …