[HTML][HTML] Diffusive intracellular interactions: On the role of protein net charge and functional adaptation

EV Estrada, N Zhang, H Wennerström… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
A striking feature of nucleic acids and lipid membranes is that they all carry net negative
charge and so is true for the majority of intracellular proteins. It is suggested that the role of …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of descriptors to capture protein properties–Tools and perspectives in the context of QSAR modeling

J Emonts, JF Buyel - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Proteins are important ingredients in food and feed, they are the active components of many
pharmaceutical products, and they are necessary, in the form of enzymes, for the success of …

The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

DJ Rigden, XM Fernández - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 2022 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 185 papers, including
87 papers reporting on new databases and 85 updates from resources previously published …

Regulating protein corona on nanovesicles by glycosylated polyhydroxy polymer modification for efficient drug delivery

Y Miao, L Li, Y Wang, J Wang, Y Zhou, L Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The dynamic protein corona formed on nanocarriers has been revealed to strongly affect
their in vivo behaviors. Precisely manipulating the formation of protein corona on …

Extraterrestrial amino acids and amines identified in asteroid Ryugu samples returned by the Hayabusa2 mission

ET Parker, HL McLain, DP Glavin, JP Dworkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The hot water and acid extracts of two different Ryugu samples collected by the Hayabusa2
mission were analyzed for the presence of aliphatic amines and amino acids. The …

Assessing Squarates as Amine-Reactive Probes

KI Taylor, JS Ho, HO Trial, AW Carter… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Probes that covalently label protein targets facilitate the identification of ligand-binding sites.
Lysine residues are prevalent in the proteome, making them attractive substrates for …

Elucidating the Impact of Payload Conjugation on the Cell-Penetrating Efficiency of the Endosomal Escape Peptide dfTAT: Implications for Future Designs for CPP …

J Diaz, M Pietsch, M Davila, G Jaimes… - Bioconjugate …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are promising tools for the intracellular delivery of various
biological payloads. However, the impact of payload conjugation on the cell-penetrating …

Unveiling cytokine charge disparity as a potential mechanism for immune regulation

JM Messina, M Luo, MS Hossan, HA Gadelrab… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cytokines are small signaling proteins that regulate the immune responses to infection and
tissue damage. Surface charges of cytokines determine their in vivo fate in immune …

Cationic ribosomal proteins can inhibit pro‐inflammatory action stimulated by LPS+ HMGB1 and are hindered by advanced glycation end products

M Watanabe, T Toyomura, H Wake… - Biotechnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We previously found that ribosomal protein L9 (RPL9) is a novel advanced glycation end
product (AGE)‐binding protein that can decrease pro‐inflammatory TNF‐α expression …

PlantMWpIDB: a database for the molecular weight and isoelectric points of the plant proteomes

TK Mohanta, MS Kamran, M Omar, W Anwar… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular weight and isoelectric point of the proteins are very important parameters that
control their subcellular localization and subsequent function. Although the genome …