Biochemistry and cell biology of tau protein in neurofibrillary degeneration

EM Mandelkow, E Mandelkow - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Tau represents the subunit protein of one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer disease (AD),
the neurofibrillary tangles, and is therefore of major interest as an indicator of disease …

Exploring free-energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution using NMR spectroscopy

MR Jensen, M Zweckstetter, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The last 15 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of protein biochemistry,
with the realization that an unexpectedly high fraction of the human genome codes for …

Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy

JA Joseph, A Reinhardt, A Aguirre, PY Chew… - Nature computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Various physics-and data-driven sequence-dependent protein coarse-grained models have
been developed to study biomolecular phase separation and elucidate the dominant …

Accurate model of liquid–liquid phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from optimization of single-chain properties

G Tesei, TK Schulze, R Crehuet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) may undergo liquid–liquid phase separation
(LLPS) and participate in the formation of membraneless organelles in the cell, thereby …

Improved predictions of phase behaviour of intrinsically disordered proteins by tuning the interaction range

G Tesei, K Lindorff-Larsen - Open Research Europe, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The formation and viscoelastic properties of condensates of intrinsically disordered proteins
(IDPs) is dictated by amino acid sequence and solution conditions. Because of the …

Improving Martini 3 for disordered and multidomain proteins

FE Thomasen, F Pesce, MA Roesgaard… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are a useful tool to determine
conformational ensembles of proteins. Here, we show that the coarse-grained force field …

Rescaling protein-protein interactions improves Martini 3 for flexible proteins in solution

FE Thomasen, T Skaalum, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multidomain proteins with flexible linkers and disordered regions play important roles in
many cellular processes, but characterizing their conformational ensembles is difficult. We …

Structural polymorphism of 441-residue tau at single residue resolution

MD Mukrasch, S Bibow, J Korukottu, S Jeganathan… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer disease is characterized by abnormal protein deposits in the brain, such as
extracellular amyloid plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. The tangles are made …

[HTML][HTML] Hsp90-Tau complex reveals molecular basis for specificity in chaperone action

GE Karagöz, AMS Duarte, E Akoury, H Ippel, J Biernat… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Protein folding in the cell relies on the orchestrated action of conserved families of molecular
chaperones, the Hsp70 and Hsp90 systems. Hsp70 acts early and Hsp90 late in the folding …

How random are intrinsically disordered proteins? A small angle scattering perspective

V Receveur-Bréchot, D Durand - Current Protein and Peptide …, 2012 - benthamdirect.com
While the crucial role of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) in the cell cycle is now
recognized, deciphering their molecular mode of action at the structural level still remains …