Advantages of proteins being disordered

Z Liu, Y Huang - Protein Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has witnessed great advances in our understanding of protein structure‐
function relationships in terms of the ubiquitous existence of intrinsically disordered proteins …

Cooperativity, local-nonlocal coupling, and nonnative interactions: principles of protein folding from coarse-grained models

HS Chan, Z Zhang, S Wallin, Z Liu - Annual review of physical …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Coarse-grained, self-contained polymer models are powerful tools in the study of protein
folding. They are also essential to assess predictions from less rigorous theoretical …

Kinetic advantage of intrinsically disordered proteins in coupled folding–binding process: a critical assessment of the “fly-casting” mechanism

Y Huang, Z Liu - Journal of molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are recognized to play important roles in many
biological functions such as transcription and translation regulation, cellular signal …

Amyloid-β peptide 37, 38 and 40 individually and cooperatively inhibit amyloid-β 42 aggregation

GA Braun, AJ Dear, K Sanagavarapu, H Zetterberg… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The pathology of Alzheimer's disease is connected to the aggregation of β-amyloid (Aβ)
peptide, which in vivo exists as a number of length-variants. Truncations and extensions are …

Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

E Bianchi, B Capone, I Coluzza, L Rovigatti… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and
selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to …

N-terminal extensions retard Aβ42 fibril formation but allow cross-seeding and coaggregation with Aβ42

O Szczepankiewicz, B Linse, G Meisl… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) sequence length variants with varying aggregation propensity coexist
in vivo, where coaggregation and cross-catalysis phenomena may affect the aggregation …

Computational protein design: a review

I Coluzza - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Proteins are one of the most versatile modular assembling systems in nature.
Experimentally, more than 110 000 protein structures have been identified and more are …

Casein structures in the context of unfolded proteins

DC Thorn, H Ecroyd, JA Carver, C Holt - International Dairy Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Caseins were among the first proteins to be recognised as functional but unfolded. Many
others are now known, providing better models of casein behaviour than either detergents or …

[HTML][HTML] The functional roles of the unstructured N-and C-terminal regions in αB-crystallin and other mammalian small heat-shock proteins

JA Carver, AB Grosas, H Ecroyd, RA Quinlan - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2017 - Elsevier
Small heat-shock proteins (sHsps), such as αB-crystallin, are one of the major classes of
molecular chaperone proteins. In vivo, under conditions of cellular stress, sHsps are the …

A simple lattice model that captures protein folding, aggregation and amyloid formation

S Abeln, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson, D Frenkel - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The ability of many proteins to convert from their functional soluble state to amyloid fibrils
can be attributed to inter-molecular beta strand formation. Such amyloid formation is …