Macromolecular crowding and confinement: biochemical, biophysical, and potential physiological consequences

HX Zhou, G Rivas, AP Minton - Annu. Rev. Biophys., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Expected and observed effects of volume exclusion on the free energy of rigid and flexible
macromolecules in crowded and confined systems, and consequent effects of crowding and …

Folding of glycoproteins: toward understanding the biophysics of the glycosylation code

D Shental-Bechor, Y Levy - Current opinion in structural biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Glycosylation is among the most common post-translational modifications that proteins
undergo that may affect many of their activities. It may also modify the underlying energy …

Effect of glycosylation on protein folding: a close look at thermodynamic stabilization

D Shental-Bechor, Y Levy - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Glycosylation is one of the most common posttranslational modifications to occur in protein
biosynthesis, yet its effect on the thermodynamics and kinetics of proteins is poorly …

GroEL-mediated protein folding: making the impossible, possible

Z Lin, HS Rye - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Protein folding is a spontaneous process that is essential for life, yet the concentrated and
complex interior of a cell is an inherently hostile environment for the efficient folding of many …

Folding while bound to chaperones

S Horowitz, P Koldewey, F Stull… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Certain proteins can fold while bound to chaperones.•Kinetic studies on soluble
systems can reveal folding while bound to chaperones.•Folding while bound to chaperones …

Confinement effects on the kinetics and thermodynamics of protein dimerization

W Wang, WX Xu, Y Levy, E Trizac… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
In the cell, protein complexes form by relying on specific interactions between their
monomers. Excluded volume effects due to molecular crowding would lead to correlations …

Protein folding simulations: From coarse‐grained model to all‐atom model

J Zhang, W Li, J Wang, M Qin, L Wu, Z Yan, W Xu… - IUBMB …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Protein folding is an important and challenging problem in molecular biology. During the last
two decades, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has proved to be a paramount tool and …

Nanopore–protein interactions dramatically alter stability and yield of the native state in restricted spaces

MS Cheung, D Thirumalai - Journal of molecular biology, 2006 - Elsevier
We have studied the stability and the yield of the folded WW domains in a spherical
nanopore to provide insights into the changes in the folding characteristics due to …

The exclusive effects of chaperonin on the behavior of proteins with 52 knot

Y Zhao, P Dabrowski-Tumanski… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The folding of proteins with a complex knot is still an unresolved question. Based on
representative members of Ubiquitin C-terminal Hydrolases (UCHs) that contain the 52 knot …

[HTML][HTML] GroEL assisted folding of large polypeptide substrates in Escherichia coli: present scenario and assignments for the future

TK Chaudhuri, VK Verma, A Maheshwari - Progress in biophysics and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Escherichia coli chaperonins GroEL and GroES are indispensable for survival and growth of
the cell since they provide essential assistance to the folding of many newly translated …