Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

The mechanisms of integral membrane protein biogenesis

RS Hegde, RJ Keenan - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
Roughly one quarter of all genes code for integral membrane proteins that are inserted into
the plasma membrane of prokaryotes or the endoplasmic reticulum membrane of …

Substrate-driven assembly of a translocon for multipass membrane proteins

A Sundaram, M Yamsek, F Zhong, Y Hooda, RS Hegde… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most membrane proteins are synthesized on endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-bound ribosomes
docked at the translocon, a heterogeneous ensemble of transmembrane factors operating …

Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

Expulsion mechanism of the substrate-translocating subunit in ECF transporters

C Thangaratnarajah, M Nijland… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Energy-coupling factor (ECF)-type transporters mediate the uptake of micronutrients
in many bacteria. They consist of a substrate-translocating subunit (S-component) and an …

The biogenesis of multipass membrane proteins

L Smalinskaitė, RS Hegde - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Multipass membrane proteins contain two or more α-helical transmembrane domains
(TMDs) that span the lipid bilayer. They are inserted cotranslationally into the prokaryotic …

Cotranslational sorting and processing of newly synthesized proteins in eukaryotes

M Gamerdinger, E Deuerling - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Ribosomes interact with a variety of different protein biogenesis factors that guide newly
synthesized proteins to their native 3D shapes and cellular localization. Depending on the …

A signal peptide peptidase is required for ER-symbiosome proximal association and protein secretion

J Yang, N Zhai, Y Chen, L Wang, R Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
During legume-rhizobia symbiosis, differentiation of the symbiosome (engulfed intracellular
rhizobia) is necessary for successful nitrogen fixation. To control symbiosome differentiation …

Rhomboid-catalyzed intramembrane proteolysis requires hydrophobic matching with the surrounding lipid bilayer

O Engberg, D Ulbricht, V Döbel, V Siebert, C Frie… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Membrane thinning by rhomboid proteins has been proposed to reduce hydrophobic
mismatch, providing a unique environment for important functions ranging from …

CDK1–cyclin-B1-induced kindlin degradation drives focal adhesion disassembly at mitotic entry

NP Chen, J Aretz, R Fässler - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
The disassembly of integrin-containing focal adhesions (FAs) at mitotic entry is essential for
cell rounding, mitotic retraction fibre formation, bipolar spindle positioning and chromosome …