A guide to studying protein aggregation

JAJ Housmans, G Wu, J Schymkowitz… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disrupted protein folding or decreased protein stability can lead to the accumulation of
(partially) un‐or misfolded proteins, which ultimately cause the formation of protein …

Challenges Associated With the Formation of Recombinant Protein Inclusion Bodies in Escherichia coli and Strategies to Address Them for Industrial Applications

A Bhatwa, W Wang, YI Hassan, N Abraham… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recombinant proteins are becoming increasingly important for industrial applications, where
Escherichia coli is the most widely used bacterial host for their production. However, the …

Protein recovery from inclusion bodies of Escherichia coli using mild solubilization process

A Singh, V Upadhyay, AK Upadhyay, SM Singh… - Microbial cell …, 2015 - Springer
Formation of inclusion bodies in bacterial hosts poses a major challenge for large scale
recovery of bioactive proteins. The process of obtaining bioactive protein from inclusion …

Exploring the sequence determinants of amyloid structure using position-specific scoring matrices

S Maurer-Stroh, M Debulpaep, N Kuemmerer… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Protein aggregation results in β-sheet–like assemblies that adopt either a variety of
amorphous morphologies or ordered amyloid-like structures. These differences in structure …

A consensus method for the prediction of 'aggregation-prone'peptides in globular proteins

AC Tsolis, NC Papandreou, VA Iconomidou… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The purpose of this work was to construct a consensus prediction algorithm of 'aggregation-
prone'peptides in globular proteins, combining existing tools. This allows comparison of the …

Functional amyloid in Pseudomonas

MS Dueholm, SV Petersen, M Sønderkær… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Amyloids are highly abundant in many microbial biofilms and may play an important role in
their architecture. Nevertheless, little is known of the amyloid proteins. We report the …

Protein folding and conformational stress in microbial cells producing recombinant proteins: a host comparative overview

B Gasser, M Saloheimo, U Rinas, M Dragosits… - Microbial cell …, 2008 - Springer
Different species of microorganisms including yeasts, filamentous fungi and bacteria have
been used in the past 25 years for the controlled production of foreign proteins of scientific …

Protein quality in bacterial inclusion bodies

S Ventura, A Villaverde - Trends in biotechnology, 2006 - cell.com
A common limitation of recombinant protein production in bacteria is the formation of
insoluble protein aggregates known as inclusion bodies. The propensity of a given protein to …

Bacterial inclusion bodies: discovering their better half

U Rinas, E Garcia-Fruitós, JL Corchero… - Trends in biochemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Bacterial inclusion bodies (IBs) are functional, non-toxic amyloids occurring in recombinant
bacteria showing analogies with secretory granules of the mammalian endocrine system …

The conformational quality of insoluble recombinant proteins is enhanced at low growth temperatures

A Vera, N González‐Montalbán, A Arís… - Biotechnology and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Protein aggregation is a major bottleneck during the bacterial production of recombinant
proteins. In general, the induction of gene expression at sub‐optimal growth temperatures …