The realm of unconventional noncovalent interactions in proteins: their significance in structure and function

VA Adhav, K Saikrishnan - Acs Omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteins and their assemblies are fundamental for living cells to function. Their complex
three-dimensional architecture and its stability are attributed to the combined effect of …

CO 2-responsive gels

RD Jansen-van Vuuren, S Naficy… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
CO2-responsive materials undergo a change in chemical or physical properties in response
to the introduction or removal of CO2. The use of CO2 as a stimulus is advantageous as it is …

[HTML][HTML] Can predicted protein 3D structures provide reliable insights into whether missense variants are disease associated?

S Ittisoponpisan, SA Islam, T Khanna, E Alhuzimi… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of protein structure can be used to predict the phenotypic consequence
of a missense variant. Since structural coverage of the human proteome can be roughly …

Water determines the structure and dynamics of proteins

MC Bellissent-Funel, A Hassanali, M Havenith… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Water is an essential participant in the stability, structure, dynamics, and function of proteins
and other biomolecules. Thermodynamically, changes in the aqueous environment affect …

Contribution of hydrogen bonds to protein stability

CN Pace, H Fu, K Lee Fryar, J Landua… - Protein …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Our goal was to gain a better understanding of the contribution of the burial of polar groups
and their hydrogen bonds to the conformational stability of proteins. We measured the …

[HTML][HTML] Protein stability: a crystallographer's perspective

MC Deller, L Kong, B Rupp - Structural Biology and Crystallization …, 2016 - journals.iucr.org
Protein stability is a topic of major interest for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and food
industries, in addition to being a daily consideration for academic researchers studying …

Verification of protein structures: patterns of nonbonded atomic interactions

C Colovos, TO Yeates - Protein science, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
A novel method for differentiating between correctly and incorrectly determined regions of
protein structures based on characteristic atomic interactions is described. Different types of …

[HTML][HTML] Forces stabilizing proteins

CN Pace, JM Scholtz, GR Grimsley - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The goal of this article is to summarize what has been learned about the major forces
stabilizing proteins since the late 1980s when site-directed mutagenesis became possible …

Knowledge‐based protein secondary structure assignment

D Frishman, P Argos - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed an automatic algorithm STRIDE for protein secondary structure
assignment from atomic coordinates based on the combined use of hydrogen bond energy …

Satisfying hydrogen bonding potential in proteins

IK McDonald, JM Thornton - Journal of molecular biology, 1994 - Elsevier
We have analysed the frequency with which potential hydrogen bond donors and acceptors
are satisfied in protein molecules. There are a small percentage of nitrogen or oxygen atoms …