De novo metalloprotein design

MJ Chalkley, SI Mann, WF DeGrado - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Natural metalloproteins perform many functions—ranging from sensing to electron transfer
and catalysis—in which the position and property of each ligand and metal are dictated by …

Type V secretion systems: an overview of passenger domain functions

I Meuskens, A Saragliadis, JC Leo… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria secrete proteins for different purposes such as communication, virulence functions,
adhesion to surfaces, nutrient acquisition, or growth inhibition of competing bacteria. For …

Beyond shielding: the roles of glycans in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

L Casalino, Z Gaieb, JA Goldsmith, CK Hjorth… - ACS central …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in more than 28,000,000 infections and 900,000 …

Structure and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 spike refolding in membranes

MW Grunst, Z Qin, E Dodero-Rojas, S Ding, J Prévost… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein binds the
receptor angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and drives virus-host membrane fusion …

Coiled coils–a model system for the 21st century

AN Lupas, J Bassler - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
α-Helical coiled coils were described more than 60 years ago as simple, repetitive structures
mediating oligomerization and mechanical stability. Over the past 20 years, however, they …

A Basis Set of de Novo Coiled-Coil Peptide Oligomers for Rational Protein Design and Synthetic Biology

JM Fletcher, AL Boyle, M Bruning, GJ Bartlett… - ACS synthetic …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Protein engineering, chemical biology, and synthetic biology would benefit from toolkits of
peptide and protein components that could be exchanged reliably between systems while …

Type V secretion: mechanism (s) of autotransport through the bacterial outer membrane

JC Leo, I Grin, D Linke - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Autotransport in Gram-negative bacteria denotes the ability of surface-localized proteins to
cross the outer membrane (OM) autonomously. Autotransporters perform this task with the …

Molecular architecture and activation of the insecticidal protein Vip3Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis

R Núñez-Ramírez, J Huesa, Y Bel, J Ferré… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3 (V egetative I nsecticidal P rotein 3) toxins are widely used in
biotech crops to control Lepidopteran pests. These proteins are produced as inactive …

The structure and topology of α-helical coiled coils

AN Lupas, J Bassler, S Dunin-Horkawicz - Fibrous Proteins: Structures and …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract α-Helical coiled coils constitute one of the most diverse folds yet described. They
range in length over two orders of magnitude; they form rods, segmented ropes, barrels …

The disposition of the LZCC protein residues in wenxiang diagram provides new insights into the protein–protein interaction mechanism

GP Zhou - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Wenxiang diagram is a new two-dimensional representation that characterizes the
disposition of hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues in α-helices. In this research, the …