A new theoretical approach to biological self-assembly

M Kinoshita - Biophysical reviews, 2013 - Springer
Upon biological self-assembly, the number of accessible translational configurations of
water in the system increases considerably, leading to a large gain in water entropy. It is …

Energetics of oligomeric protein folding and association

CM Doyle, JA Rumfeldt, HR Broom, A Broom… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
In nature, proteins most often exist as complexes, with many of these consisting of identical
subunits. Understanding of the energetics governing the folding and misfolding of such …

Binding of an RNA aptamer and a partial peptide of a prion protein: crucial importance of water entropy in molecular recognition

T Hayashi, H Oshima, T Mashima, T Nagata… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
It is a central issue to elucidate the new type of molecular recognition accompanied by a
global structural change of a molecule upon binding to its targets. Here we investigate the …

Anomalously rapid hydration water diffusion dynamics near DNA surfaces

JM Franck, Y Ding, K Stone, PZ Qin… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The emerging Overhauser effect dynamic nuclear polarization (ODNP) technique measures
the translational mobility of water within the vicinity (5–15 Å) of preselected sites. The work …

A machine learning approach for hot-spot detection at protein-protein interfaces

R Melo, R Fieldhouse, A Melo, JDG Correia… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Understanding protein-protein interactions is a key challenge in biochemistry. In this work,
we describe a more accurate methodology to predict Hot-Spots (HS) in protein-protein …

Coarse-grained versus atomistic simulations: realistic interaction free energies for real proteins

A May, R Pool, E van Dijk, J Bijlard, S Abeln… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: To assess whether two proteins will interact under physiological conditions,
information on the interaction free energy is needed. Statistical learning techniques and …

Structure of the ultra-high-affinity colicin E2 DNase–Im2 complex

JA Wojdyla, SJ Fleishman, D Baker… - Journal of molecular …, 2012 - Elsevier
How proteins achieve high-affinity binding to a specific protein partner while simultaneously
excluding all others is a major biological problem that has important implications for protein …

Valid entropy–enthalpy compensation: Fine mechanisms at microscopic level

EB Starikov - Chemical Physics Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
If the physically–chemically valid entropy–enthalpy compensation (EEC) could be revealed
in experiments, what are then its actual mechanisms at the atomic/molecular level? This …

Using machine‐learning‐driven approaches to boost hot‐spot's knowledge

N Rosário‐Ferreira, AMJJ Bonvin… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding protein–protein interactions (PPIs) is fundamental to describe and to
characterize the formation of biomolecular assemblies, and to establish the energetic …

Structural stability of proteins in aqueous and nonpolar environments

S Yasuda, H Oshima, M Kinoshita - The Journal of chemical physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A protein folds into its native structure with the α-helix and/or β-sheet in aqueous solution
under the physiological condition. The relative content of these secondary structures largely …