Frustration in biomolecules

DU Ferreiro, EA Komives, PG Wolynes - Quarterly reviews of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Biomolecules are the prime information processing elements of living matter. Most of these
inanimate systems are polymers that compute their own structures and dynamics using as …

Protein dynamics and function from solution state NMR spectroscopy

M Kovermann, P Rogne, M Wolf-Watz - Quarterly reviews of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
It is well-established that dynamics are central to protein function; their importance is
implicitly acknowledged in the principles of the Monod, Wyman and Changeux model of …

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 …

Dynamic allostery: linkers are not merely flexible

B Ma, CJ Tsai, T Haliloğlu, R Nussinov - Structure, 2011 - cell.com
Most proteins consist of multiple domains. How do linkers efficiently transfer information
between sites that are on different domains to activate the protein? Mere flexibility only …

Surveying biomolecular frustration at atomic resolution

M Chen, X Chen, NP Schafer, C Clementi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To function, biomolecules require sufficient specificity of interaction as well as stability to live
in the cell while still being able to move. Thermodynamic stability of only a limited number of …

On the role of frustration in the energy landscapes of allosteric proteins

DU Ferreiro, JA Hegler, EA Komives… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Natural protein domains must be sufficiently stable to fold but often need to be locally
unstable to function. Overall, strong energetic conflicts are minimized in native states …

Protein frustratometer: a tool to localize energetic frustration in protein molecules

M Jenik, RG Parra, LG Radusky… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The frustratometer is an energy landscape theory-inspired algorithm that aims at quantifying
the location of frustration manifested in protein molecules. Frustration is a useful concept for …

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 …

Frustration, specific sequence dependence, and nonlinearity in large-amplitude fluctuations of allosteric proteins

W Li, PG Wolynes, S Takada - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Proteins have often evolved sequences so as to acquire the ability for regulation via
allosteric conformational change. Here we investigate how allosteric dynamics is designed …

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 …