Multiplex chemical labeling of amino acids for protein footprinting structure assessment

R Jain, NS Dhillon, ER Farquhar, B Wang, X Li… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein footprinting with mass spectrometry is an established structural biology technique for
mapping solvent accessibility and assessing molecular-level interactions of proteins. In …

Evaluating Mass Spectrometry-Based Hydroxyl Radical Protein Footprinting of a Benchtop Flash Oxidation System against a Synchrotron X-ray Beamline

R Jain, NS Dhillon, VL Kanchustambham… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydroxyl radical protein footprinting (HRPF) using synchrotron X-ray radiation (XFP) and
mass spectrometry is a well-validated structural biology method that provides critical insights …

Directional drying of a colloidal dispersion: quantitative description with water potential measurements using water clusters in a poly (dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic …

H Pingulkar, S Maréchal, JB Salmon - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We have developed a poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) microfluidic chip to study the
directional drying of a colloidal dispersion confined in a channel. Our measurements on a …

Immunoanalytical Detection of Conserved Peptides: Refining the Universe of Biomarker Targets in Planetary Exploration

P Mustieles-del-Ser, D Ruano-Gallego… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ancient peptides are remnants of early biochemistry that continue to play pivotal roles in
current proteins. They are simple molecules yet complex enough to exhibit independent …

Circuit topology predicts pathogenicity of missense mutations

J Woodard, S Iqbal, A Mashaghi - Proteins: Structure, Function …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The contact topology of a protein determines important aspects of the folding process. The
topological measure of contact order has been shown to be predictive of the rate of folding …

Hydrophobic Clusters Regulate Surface Hydration Dynamics of Bacillus subtilis Lipase A

AM Jaufer, A Bouhadana… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The surface hydration diffusivity of Bacillus subtilis Lipase A (BSLA) has been characterized
by low-field Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization (ODNP) relaxometry using a series of …

Stepwise introduction of stabilizing mutations reveals nonlinear additive effects in de novo TIM barrels

JS Koch, S Romero‐Romero, B Höcker - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the TIM‐barrel fold has served as a model system for the exploration
of how changes in protein sequences affect their structural, stability, and functional …

Rational design of protein-specific folding modifiers

A Das, A Yadav, M Gupta, VL Terse… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein-folding can go wrong in vivo and in vitro, with significant consequences for the living
organism and the pharmaceutical industry, respectively. Here we propose a design principle …

Protein structural features predict responsiveness to pharmacological chaperone treatment for three lysosomal storage disorders

J Woodard, W Zheng, Y Zhang - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Three-dimensional structures of proteins can provide important clues into the efficacy of
personalized treatment. We perform a structural analysis of variants within three inherited …

A rapid discriminative hydrogen–deuterium exchange and LC-HRMS/MS strategy for primary and higher order structural mapping of therapeutic proteins: a case study …

H Thakkar, R Eerla, L Sharma, RP Shah - Analytical Methods, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A vast number of therapeutic proteins are approved and available on the market. However,
there are very limited analytical approaches available for the rapid determination of primary …