Raman spectroscopy of proteins: from peptides to large assemblies

R Tuma - Journal of Raman Spectroscopy: An International …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Raman spectroscopy has become a versatile tool in protein science and biotechnology.
Recent advances in spectral assignments and vibrational theory, examples of use in …

Structure of condensed phase peptides: insights from vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity techniques

TA Keiderling - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptides and proteins are naturally chiral molecular systems so that sensing their structure
and conformation with chirality-based spectral methods is an obvious and long-used …

Comparison of multiple Amber force fields and development of improved protein backbone parameters

V Hornak, R Abel, A Okur, B Strockbine… - Proteins: Structure …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The ff94 force field that is commonly associated with the Amber simulation package is one of
the most widely used parameter sets for biomolecular simulation. After a decade of …

Raman spectroscopic characterization of secondary structure in natively unfolded proteins: α-synuclein

NC Maiti, MM Apetri, MG Zagorski… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The application of Raman spectroscopy to characterize natively unfolded proteins has been
underdeveloped, even though it has significant technical advantages. We propose that a …

Exploring free-energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution using NMR spectroscopy

MR Jensen, M Zweckstetter, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The last 15 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of protein biochemistry,
with the realization that an unexpectedly high fraction of the human genome codes for …

The natively unfolded character of tau and its aggregation to Alzheimer-like paired helical filaments

S Jeganathan, M Von Bergen, EM Mandelkow… - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
The abnormal aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein Tau into paired helical
filaments (PHFs) is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD). Tau in solution behaves …

Structure and dynamics of the homologous series of alanine peptides: a joint molecular dynamics/NMR study

J Graf, PH Nguyen, G Stock… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The ϕ, ψ backbone angle distribution of small homopolymeric model peptides is
investigated by a joint molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and heteronuclear NMR study …

Predictive atomic resolution descriptions of intrinsically disordered hTau40 and α-synuclein in solution from NMR and small angle scattering

M Schwalbe, V Ozenne, S Bibow, M Jaremko… - Structure, 2014 - cell.com
The development of molecular descriptions of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is
essential for elucidating conformational transitions that characterize common …

Temperature‐dependent structural changes in intrinsically disordered proteins: Formation of α‒helices or loss of polyproline II?

M Kjaergaard, AB Nørholm… - Protein …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Structural characterization of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is mandatory for
deciphering their potential unique physical and biological properties. A large number of …

Statistical coil model of the unfolded state: resolving the reconciliation problem

AK Jha, A Colubri, KF Freed… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
An unfolded state ensemble is generated by using a self-avoiding statistical coil model that
is based on backbone conformational frequencies in a coil library, a subset of the Protein …