[HTML][HTML] Protein aggregation, particle formation, characterization & rheology

S Amin, GV Barnett, JA Pathak, CJ Roberts… - Current Opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this review, we attempt to give a concise overview of recent progress made in mechanistic
understanding of protein aggregation, particulate formation and protein solution rheology …

Potential and limits of a colloid approach to protein solutions

A Stradner, P Schurtenberger - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Looking at globular proteins with the eyes of a colloid scientist has a long tradition, in fact a
significant part of the early colloid literature was focused on protein solutions. However, it …

Direct optical sensing of single unlabelled proteins and super-resolution imaging of their binding sites

M Piliarik, V Sandoghdar - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Detection of single analyte molecules without the use of any label would improve the
sensitivity of current biosensors by orders of magnitude to the ultimate graininess of …

Dynamic cluster formation determines viscosity and diffusion in dense protein solutions

S von Bülow, M Siggel, M Linke… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We develop a detailed description of protein translational and rotational diffusion in
concentrated solution on the basis of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations in explicit …

Crowding in cellular environments at an atomistic level from computer simulations

M Feig, I Yu, P Wang, G Nawrocki… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The effects of crowding in biological environments on biomolecular structure, dynamics, and
function remain not well understood. Computer simulations of atomistic models of …

Dynamics of proteins in solution

M Grimaldo, F Roosen-Runge, F Zhang… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of proteins in solution includes a variety of processes, such as backbone and
side-chain fluctuations, interdomain motions, as well as global rotational and translational …

Slow-down in diffusion in crowded protein solutions correlates with transient cluster formation

G Nawrocki, P Wang, I Yu, Y Sugita… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
For a long time, the effect of a crowded cellular environment on protein dynamics has been
largely ignored. Recent experiments indicate that proteins diffuse more slowly in a living cell …

Recent progresses of understanding the viscosity of concentrated protein solutions

Z Zhang, Y Liu - Current opinion in chemical engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Colloidal approaches to understand concentrated globular protein
solutions.•Structure-viscosity relationship for concentrated monoclonal antibody …

High-throughput microfluidic micropipette aspiration device to probe time-scale dependent nuclear mechanics in intact cells

PM Davidson, GR Fedorchak, S Mondésert-Deveraux… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The mechanical properties of the cell nucleus are increasingly recognized as critical in many
biological processes. The deformability of the nucleus determines the ability of immune and …

Interplay of pH and binding of multivalent metal ions: charge inversion and reentrant condensation in protein solutions

F Roosen-Runge, BS Heck, F Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Tuning of protein surface charge is a fundamental mechanism in biological systems. Protein
charge is regulated in a physiological context by pH and interaction with counterions. We …