Macromolecular crowding, phase separation, and homeostasis in the orchestration of bacterial cellular functions

B Monterroso, W Margolin, AJ Boersma, G Rivas… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding affects the activity of proteins and functional macromolecular
complexes in all cells, including bacteria. Crowding, together with physicochemical …

Ensemble docking in drug discovery

RE Amaro, J Baudry, J Chodera, Ö Demir… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Ensemble docking corresponds to the generation of an" ensemble" of drug target
conformations in computational structure-based drug discovery, often obtained by using …

Complete protein–protein association kinetics in atomic detail revealed by molecular dynamics simulations and Markov modelling

N Plattner, S Doerr, G De Fabritiis, F Noé - Nature chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Protein–protein association is fundamental to many life processes. However, a microscopic
model describing the structures and kinetics during association and dissociation is lacking …

Anatomy of hot spots in protein interfaces

AA Bogan, KS Thorn - Journal of molecular biology, 1998 - Elsevier
Binding of one protein to another is involved in nearly all biological functions, yet the
principles governing the interaction of proteins are not fully understood. To analyze the …

The atomic structure of protein-protein recognition sites

LL Conte, C Chothia, J Janin - Journal of molecular biology, 1999 - Elsevier
The non-covalent assembly of proteins that fold separately is central to many biological
processes, and differs from the permanent macromolecular assembly of protein subunits in …

Atomic-level characterization of protein–protein association

AC Pan, D Jacobson, K Yatsenko, D Sritharan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Despite the biological importance of protein–protein complexes, determining their structures
and association mechanisms remains an outstanding challenge. Here, we report the results …

Fundamental aspects of protein− protein association kinetics

G Schreiber, G Haran, HX Zhou - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
The structure of a protein complex together with information about its affinity and other
thermodynamic characteristics provide a “frozen” view of the complex. This picture ignores …

Real-time measurement of protein–protein interactions at single-molecule resolution using a biological nanopore

AK Thakur, L Movileanu - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are essential for many cellular processes. However,
transient PPIs are difficult to measure at high throughput or in complex biological fluids using …

Directed evolution of antibody fragments with monovalent femtomolar antigen-binding affinity

ET Boder, KS Midelfort, KD Wittrup - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 - pnas.org
Single-chain antibody mutants have been evolved in vitro with antigen-binding equilibrium
dissociation constant K d= 48 fM and slower dissociation kinetics (half-time> 5 days) than …

Extending the applicability of the nonlinear Poisson− Boltzmann equation: multiple dielectric constants and multivalent ions

W Rocchia, E Alexov, B Honig - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2001 - ACS Publications
A new version of the DelPhi program, which provides numerical solutions to the nonlinear
Poisson− Boltzmann (PB) equation, is reported. The program can divide space into multiple …