Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D **, 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 …

Solid-state NMR: Methods for biological solids

S Ahlawat, KR Mote, NA Lakomek… - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy has
transformed from a spectroscopic technique investigating small molecules and industrial …

Direct observation of the three regions in α-synuclein that determine its membrane-bound behaviour

G Fusco, A De Simone, T Gopinath, V Vostrikov… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract α-synuclein (αS) is a protein involved in neurotransmitter release in presynaptic
terminals, and whose aberrant aggregation is associated with Parkinson's disease. In …

[HTML][HTML] Choosing membrane mimetics for NMR structural studies of transmembrane proteins

DE Warschawski, AA Arnold, M Beaugrand… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2011 - Elsevier
The native environment of membrane proteins is complex and scientists have felt the need
to simplify it to reduce the number of varying parameters. However, experimental problems …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of cholesterol on membrane protein structure, function, and dynamics studied by molecular dynamics simulations

J Grouleff, SJ Irudayam, KK Skeby, B Schiøtt - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2015 - Elsevier
The plasma membrane, which encapsulates human cells, is composed of a complex mixture
of lipids and embedded proteins. Emerging knowledge points towards the lipids as having a …

Perturbations of native membrane protein structure in alkyl phosphocholine detergents: a critical assessment of NMR and biophysical studies

C Chipot, F Dehez, JR Schnell, N Zitzmann… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins perform a host of vital cellular functions. Deciphering the molecular
mechanisms whereby they fulfill these functions requires detailed biophysical and structural …

[HTML][HTML] Solution NMR: A powerful tool for structural and functional studies of membrane proteins in reconstituted environments

R Puthenveetil, O Vinogradova - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
A third of the genes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes encode membrane proteins that
are either essential for signal transduction and solute transport or function as scaffold …

Dipolar Recoupling in Rotating Solids

V Ladizhansky, RS Palani, M Mardini… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Magic angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has evolved significantly
over the past three decades and established itself as a vital tool for the structural analysis of …

Molecular dynamics simulations of biological membranes and membrane proteins using enhanced conformational sampling algorithms

T Mori, N Miyashita, W Im, M Feig, Y Sugita - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews various enhanced conformational sampling methods and explicit/implicit
solvent/membrane models, as well as their recent applications to the exploration of the …

Membrane protein structure and dynamics from NMR spectroscopy

M Hong, Y Zhang, F Hu - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review the current state of membrane protein structure determination using solid-state
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Multidimensional magic-angle-spinning …