Successes and challenges in simulating the folding of large proteins

A Gershenson, S Gosavi, P Faccioli… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Computational simulations of protein folding can be used to interpret experimental folding
results, to design new folding experiments, and to test the effects of mutations and small …

The mechanism of high affinity pentasaccharide binding to antithrombin, insights from Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

G Balogh, I Komáromi, Z Bereczky - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The activity of antithrombin (AT), a serpin protease inhibitor, is enhanced by heparin and
heparin analogs against its target proteases, mainly thrombin, factors Xa and IXa …

A comparative computational approach on the most deleterious missense variant in Connexin 43 protein and its potent inhibitor analysis

R Katturajan, T Medha, S Karra… - Indian Journal of …, 2022 - op.niscpr.res.in
Intercellular communication between the cell plays an essential role in cell growth and cell
formation, including migration, metabolism, and cell differentiation. Cell function and tissue …

KEAP1 cancer mutants: a large-scale molecular dynamics study of protein stability

CJ Wilson, M Chang, M Karttunen… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
We have performed 280 μ s of unbiased molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate
the effects of 12 different cancer mutations on Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 …

Dynamic and structural insights into tick serpin from Ixodes ricinus

P Pongprayoon, J Niramitranon… - Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Ixodid ticks have a crucial impact on people and domestic animals worldwide. These
parasites also pose a serious threat to livestock. To date, vaccination of hosts against ticks is …

Long range allostery mediates the regulation of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 by vitronectin

K Kihn, E Marchiori, G Spagnolli, A Boldrini, L Terruzzi… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The serpin plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) spontaneously undergoes a massive
structural change from a metastable, active conformation, with a solvent accessible reactive …

[HTML][HTML] The conformational landscape of a serpin N-terminal subdomain facilitates folding and in-cell quality control

U Kaur, KC Kihn, H Ke, W Kuo, LM Gierasch… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many multi-domain proteins including the serpin family of serine protease inhibitors contain
non-sequential domains composed of regions that are far apart in sequence. Because …

Long-range allostery mediates the regulation of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 by cell adhesion factor vitronectin

K Kihn, E Marchiori, G Spagnolli, A Boldrini… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
The serpin plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) spontaneously undergoes a massive
structural change from a metastable and active conformation, with a solvent-accessible …