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 …

Features of molecular recognition of intrinsically disordered proteins via coupled folding and binding

J Yang, M Gao, J Xiong, Z Su, Y Huang - Protein Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The sequence–structure–function paradigm of proteins has been revolutionized by the
discovery of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) …

Sequence determinants of compaction in intrinsically disordered proteins

JA Marsh, JD Forman-Kay - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), which lack folded structure and are disordered under
nondenaturing conditions, have been shown to perform important functions in a large …

Consistent view of polypeptide chain expansion in chemical denaturants from multiple experimental methods

A Borgia, W Zheng, K Buholzer, MB Borgia… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
There has been a long-standing controversy regarding the effect of chemical denaturants on
the dimensions of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins: A wide range of …

General purpose water model can improve atomistic simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins

PS Shabane, S Izadi, AV Onufriev - Journal of chemical theory …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Unconstrained atomistic simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins and peptides (IDP)
remain a challenge: widely used,“general purpose” water models tend to favor overly …

Engineering genetically encoded FRET sensors

L Lindenburg, M Merkx - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between two fluorescent proteins can be
exploited to create fully genetically encoded and thus subcellularly targetable sensors …

Expansion of intrinsically disordered proteins increases the range of stability of liquid–liquid phase separation

A Garaizar, I Sanchez-Burgos, R Collepardo-Guevara… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Proteins containing intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous within
biomolecular condensates, which are liquid-like compartments within cells formed through …

Examining polyglutamine peptide length: a connection between collapsed conformations and increased aggregation

RH Walters, RM Murphy - Journal of molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Abnormally expanded polyglutamine domains in proteins are associated with several
neurodegenerative diseases, of which the best known is Huntington's. Expansion of the …

Energy landscape analyses of disordered histone tails reveal special organization of their conformational dynamics

DA Potoyan, GA Papoian - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Histone tails are highly flexible N-or C-terminal protrusions of histone proteins which
facilitate the compaction of DNA into dense superstructures known as chromatin. On a …

Perspective: Chain dynamics of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins from nanosecond fluorescence correlation spectroscopy combined with single-molecule …

B Schuler - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of unfolded proteins are important both for the process of protein folding and
for the behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins. However, methods for investigating the …