Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

A guide to studying protein aggregation

JAJ Housmans, G Wu, J Schymkowitz… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disrupted protein folding or decreased protein stability can lead to the accumulation of
(partially) un‐or misfolded proteins, which ultimately cause the formation of protein …

Disease-specific tau filaments assemble via polymorphic intermediates

S Lövestam, D Li, JL Wagstaff, A Kotecha, D Kimanius… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Intermediate species in the assembly of amyloid filaments are believed to play a central role
in neurodegenerative diseases and may constitute important targets for therapeutic …

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone BiP is a master regulator of ER functions: Getting by with a little help from ERdj friends

KFR Pobre, GJ Poet, LM Hendershot - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) represents the entry point into the secretory pathway where
nascent proteins encounter a specialized environment for their folding and maturation …

Small bioactive peptides for biomaterials design and therapeutics

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2: potential implications for neurological symptoms in COVID-19

M Charnley, S Islam, GK Bindra, J Engwirda… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
COVID-19 is primarily known as a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. However,
neurological symptoms such as memory loss, sensory confusion, severe headaches, and …

Functional amyloids

D Otzen, R Riek - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
When protein/peptides aggregate, they usually form the amyloid state consisting of cross β-
sheet structure built by repetitively stacked β-strands forming long fibrils. Amyloids are …

The amyloid state and its association with protein misfolding diseases

TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The phenomenon of protein aggregation and amyloid formation has become the subject of
rapidly increasing research activities across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Such …

Predicting antimicrobial peptides with improved accuracy by incorporating the compositional, physico-chemical and structural features into Chou's general PseAAC

PK Meher, TK Sahu, V Saini, AR Rao - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important components of the innate immune system that
have been found to be effective against disease causing pathogens. Identification of AMPs …

Immunogenicity of therapeutic protein aggregates

EM Moussa, JP Panchal, BS Moorthy, JS Blum… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Therapeutic proteins have a propensity for aggregation during manufacturing, shipping, and
storage. The presence of aggregates in protein drug products can induce adverse immune …