Sequence diversity in the pore-forming motifs of the membrane-damaging protein toxins

AK Mondal, P Verma, K Lata, M Singh… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Pore-forming proteins/toxins (PFPs/PFTs) are the distinct class of membrane-damaging
proteins. They act by forming oligomeric pores in the plasma membranes. PFTs and PFPs …

A method for probing the mutational landscape of amyloid structure

CW O'Donnell, J Waldispühl, M Lis, R Halfmann… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Proteins of all kinds can self-assemble into highly ordered β-sheet aggregates
known as amyloid fibrils, important both biologically and clinically. However, the specific …

TMBpro: secondary structure, β-contact and tertiary structure prediction of transmembrane β-barrel proteins

A Randall, J Cheng, M Sweredoski, P Baldi - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Transmembrane β-barrel (TMB) proteins are embedded in the outer membranes
of mitochondria, Gram-negative bacteria and chloroplasts. These proteins perform critical …

TMBB-DB: a transmembrane β-barrel proteome database

TC Freeman Jr, WC Wimley - Bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: We previously reported the development of a highly accurate statistical algorithm
for identifying β-barrel outer membrane proteins or transmembrane β-barrels (TMBBs), from …

Bayesian models and algorithms for protein β-sheet prediction

Z Aydin, Y Altunbasak… - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prediction of the 3D structure greatly benefits from the information related to secondary
structure, solvent accessibility, and nonlocal contacts that stabilize a protein's structure. We …

[HTML][HTML] A multidomain outer membrane protein from Pasteurella multocida: modelling and simulation studies of PmOmpA

T Carpenter, S Khalid, MSP Sansom - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2007 - Elsevier
PmOmpA is a two-domain outer membrane protein from Pasteurella multocida. The N-
terminal domain of PmOmpA is a homologue of the transmembrane β-barrel domain of …

Modeling ensembles of transmembrane β‐barrel proteins

J Waldispühl, CW O'Donnell, S Devadas… - Proteins: Structure …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Transmembrane β‐barrel (TMB) proteins are embedded in the outer membrane of Gram‐
negative bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. Despite their importance, very few …

transFold: a web server for predicting the structure and residue contacts of transmembrane beta-barrels

J Waldispühl, B Berger, P Clote… - Nucleic acids …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Transmembrane β-barrel (TMB) proteins are embedded in the outer membrane of Gram-
negative bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. The cellular location and functional …

Physical and genetic characterization of an outer-membrane protein (OmpM1) containing an N-terminal S-layer-like homology domain from the phylogenetically Gram …

ML Kalmokoff, JW Austin, TD Cyr, MA Hefford… - Anaerobe, 2009 - Elsevier
Thin sectioning and freeze-fracture-etch of the ovine ruminal isolate Mitsuokella multacida
strain 46/5 (2) revealed a Gram-negative envelope ultra-structure consisting of a …

Comparative genomics and functional annotation of bacterial transporters

MS Gelfand, DA Rodionov - Physics of Life Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Transport proteins are difficult to study experimentally, and because of that their functional
characterization trails that of enzymes. The comparative genomic analysis is a powerful …