Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Electrostatic interactions in protein structure, folding, binding, and condensation

HX Zhou, X Pang - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Charged and polar groups, through forming ion pairs, hydrogen bonds, and other less
specific electrostatic interactions, impart important properties to proteins. Modulation of the …

Sequence determinants of the conformational properties of an intrinsically disordered protein prior to and upon multisite phosphorylation

EW Martin, AS Holehouse, CR Grace… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Many cell signaling events are coordinated by intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs)
that undergo multisite Serine/Threonine phosphorylation. The conformational properties of …

Differential solvation of intrinsically disordered linkers drives the formation of spatially organized droplets in ternary systems of linear multivalent proteins

TS Harmon, AS Holehouse, RV Pappu - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Intracellular biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles that encompass large
numbers of multivalent protein and nucleic acid molecules. The bodies assemble via a …

Full structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins from unbiased molecular dynamics simulations

UR Shrestha, JC Smith, L Petridis - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is widely used to complement ensemble-averaged
experiments of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). However, MD often suffers from …

The influence of pH and monovalent/divalent cations on the structural and physicochemical properties of myofibrillar protein from silver carp

Y Wang, Y Zhuang, H Yan, Y Lu, X Deng, Y Hu… - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to investigate effects of pH and monovalent (Na+ and K+)/divalent
(Ca 2+ and Mg 2+) cations on the structural and physicochemical properties of myofibrillar …

Universal and simple method for facile fabrication of sustainable high internal phase emulsions solely using meat protein particles with various pH values

R Li, Q He, M Guo, J Yuan, Y Wu, S Wang, L Rong… - Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
High internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) have recently been investigated for applications in
food areas: plant proteins, polysaccharides, and commercial surfactants have been used as …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence charge decoration dictates coil-globule transition in intrinsically disordered proteins

T Firman, K Ghosh - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present an analytical theory to compute conformations of heteropolymers—applicable to
describe disordered proteins—as a function of temperature and charge sequence. The …

Structural preferences shape the entropic force of disordered protein ensembles

F Yu, S Sukenik - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) make up over 30% of the human proteome
and exist in a dynamic conformational ensemble instead of a native, well-folded structure …

nP-Collabs: Investigating Counterion-Mediated Bridges in the Multiply Phosphorylated Tau-R2 Repeat

J Marien, C Prévost… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Tau is an intrinsically disordered (IDP) microtubule-associated protein (MAP) that plays a
key part in microtubule assembly and organization. The function of tau can be regulated by …