The many isoforms of human adenylate kinases

C Panayiotou, N Solaroli, A Karlsson - … journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Adenine nucleotides are involved in a variety of cellular metabolic processes, including
nucleic acid synthesis and repair, formation of coenzymes, energy transfer, cell and ciliary …

Allostery and population shift in drug discovery

G Kar, O Keskin, A Gursoy, R Nussinov - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Proteins can exist in a large number of conformations around their native states that can be
characterized by an energy landscape. The landscape illustrates individual valleys, which …

Predicting protein conformational motions using energetic frustration analysis and AlphaFold2

X Guan, QY Tang, W Ren, M Chen, W Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Proteins perform their biological functions through motion. Although high throughput
prediction of the three-dimensional static structures of proteins has proved feasible using …

An all‐atom structure‐based potential for proteins: bridging minimal models with all‐atom empirical forcefields

PC Whitford, JK Noel, S Gosavi, A Schug… - Proteins: Structure …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Protein dynamics take place on many time and length scales. Coarse‐grained structure‐
based \bf(G\overlineo) models utilize the funneled energy landscape theory of protein …

[HTML][HTML] Structural diversity of axonemes across mammalian motile cilia

MR Leung, C Sun, J Zeng, JR Anderson, Q Niu… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Reproduction, development and homeostasis depend on motile cilia, whose rhythmic
beating is powered by a microtubule-based molecular machine called the axoneme …

Allostery can convert binding free energies into concerted domain motions in enzymes

NS Galenkamp, S Zernia, YB Van Oppen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Enzymatic mechanisms are typically inferred from structural data. However, understanding
enzymes require unravelling the intricate dynamic interplay between dynamics …

Perspective: Nanomotors without moving parts that propel themselves in solution

R Kapral - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Self-propelled nanomotors use chemical energy to produce directed motion. Like many
molecular motors they suffer strong perturbations from the environment in which they move …

Exploring the conformational transitions of biomolecular systems using a simple two-state anisotropic network model

A Das, M Gur, MH Cheng, S Jo, I Bahar… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Biomolecular conformational transitions are essential to biological functions. Most
experimental methods report on the long-lived functional states of biomolecules, but …

A chemical perspective on allostery

AAST Ribeiro, V Ortiz - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Much work has been done in the past decade to quantify the phenomenon of allosteric
communication in proteins. Every new study unveils an extra piece of the puzzle in our …

Protein functional landscapes, dynamics, allostery: a tortuous path towards a universal theoretical framework

PI Zhuravlev, GA Papoian - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2010 - cambridge.org
Energy landscape theories have provided a common ground for understanding the protein
folding problem, which once seemed to be overwhelmingly complicated. At the same time …