Lessons from pressure denaturation of proteins

J Roche, CA Royer - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although it is now relatively well understood how sequence defines and impacts global
protein stability in specific structural contexts, the question of how sequence modulates the …

Single molecule secondary structure determination of proteins through infrared absorption nanospectroscopy

FS Ruggeri, B Mannini, R Schmid… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chemical and structural properties of biomolecules determine their interactions, and
thus their functions, in a wide variety of biochemical processes. Innovative imaging methods …

The principles of buoyancy in marine fish eggs and their vertical distributions across the world oceans

S Sundby, T Kristiansen - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Buoyancy acting on plankton, ie the difference in specific gravity between plankton and the
ambient water, is a function of salinity and temperature. From specific gravity measurements …

Wanted: scalable tracers for diffusion measurements

MJ Saxton - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
Scalable tracers are potentially a useful tool to examine diffusion mechanisms and to predict
diffusion coefficients, particularly for hindered diffusion in complex, heterogeneous, or …

A complete thermodynamic analysis of enzyme turnover links the free energy landscape to enzyme catalysis

HBL Jones, SA Wells, EJ Prentice, A Kwok… - The FEBS …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of how enzymes work is coloured by static structure depictions where the
enzyme scaffold is presented as either immobile, or in equilibrium between well‐defined …

Practical aspects of high-pressure NMR spectroscopy and its applications in protein biophysics and structural biology

JA Caro, AJ Wand - Methods, 2018 - Elsevier
Pressure and temperature are the two fundamental variables of thermodynamics.
Temperature and chemical perturbation are central experimental tools for the exploration of …

q-Canonical Monte Carlo Sampling for Modeling the Linkage between Charge Regulation and Conformational Equilibria of Peptides

MJ Fossat, RV Pappu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
The overall charge content and the patterning of charged residues have a profound impact
on the conformational ensembles adopted by intrinsically disordered proteins. These …

High-resolution map** of a repeat protein folding free energy landscape

MJ Fossat, TP Dao, K Jenkins, M Dellarole, Y Yang… - Biophysical …, 2016 - cell.com
A complete description of the pathways and mechanisms of protein folding requires a
detailed structural and energetic characterization of the conformational ensemble along the …

Molecular determinants of temperature dependence of protein volume change upon unfolding

CR Chen, GI Makhatadze - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2017 - ACS Publications
Pressure is a well-known environmental stressor that can either stabilize or destabilize
proteins. The volumetric change upon protein unfolding determines the effect of pressure on …

Evolutionarily conserved pattern of interactions in a protein revealed by local thermal expansion properties

M Dellarole, JA Caro, J Roche, M Fossat… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The way in which the network of intramolecular interactions determines the cooperative
folding and conformational dynamics of a protein remains poorly understood. High-pressure …