[HTML][HTML] Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation

MA Astore, AS Pradhan, EH Thiede… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Allostery is the mechanism by which information and control are propagated in
biomolecules. It regulates ligand binding, chemical reactions, and conformational changes …

Applications of graph theory in studying protein structure, dynamics, and interactions

Z Zhou, G Hu - Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Being a core tool, graph theory, as a mathematical formalism in mathematical chemistry, has
become an essential approach for studying the complex behavior and interactions in protein …

[HTML][HTML] Protein kinase structure and dynamics: role of the αC-β4 loop

J Wu, NA Jonniya, SP Hirakis, C Olivieri, G Veglia… - biorxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although the αC-β4 loop is a stable feature of all protein kinases, the importance of this motif
as a conserved element of secondary structure, as well as its links to the hydrophobic …

Drive-specific selection in multistable mechanical networks

H Kedia, D Pan, JJ Slotine, JL England - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Systems with many stable configurations abound in nature, both in living and inanimate
matter, encoding a rich variety of behaviors. In equilibrium, a multistable system is more …

Role of the αC-β4 loop in protein kinase structure and dynamics

J Wu, NA Jonniya, SP Hirakis, C Olivieri, G Veglia… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Although the αC-β4 loop is a stable feature of all protein kinases, the importance of this motif
as a conserved element of secondary structure, as well as its links to the hydrophobic …

Illuminating Protein Allostery by Chemically Accurate Contact Response Analysis (ChACRA)

D Burns, V Venditti, DA Potoyan - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Decoding allostery at the atomic level is essential for understanding the relationship
between a protein's sequence, structure, and dynamics. Recently, we have shown that …

Role of two modules controlling the interaction between SKAP1 and SRC kinases comparison with SKAP2 architecture and consequences for evolution

L Levillayer, C Brighelli, C Demeret, A Sakuntabhai… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
SRC kinase associated phosphoprotein 1 (SKAP1), an adaptor for protein assembly, plays
an important role in the immune system such as stabilizing immune synapses …

Allostery in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases is Enabled by Divergent Dynamics

CL Welsh, LK Madan - Journal of chemical information and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dynamics-driven allostery provides important insights into the working mechanics of
proteins, especially enzymes. In this study, we employ this paradigm to answer a basic …

A Fresh Look at the Normal Mode Analysis of Proteins: Introducing Allosteric Co-Vibrational Modes

I Kolossváry - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
We propose a new way of utilizing normal modes to study protein conformational transitions.
Instead of considering individual modes independently, we show that a weighted mixture of …

Protein structure and dynamics in the era of integrative structural biology

R Grandori - Frontiers in Biophysics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Proteins carry out their biological activity as dynamic structures and populate in solution or in
biological membranes structural distributions with different degrees of heterogeneity. The …