A review of methods available to estimate solvent-accessible surface areas of soluble proteins in the folded and unfolded states

S Ausaf Ali, M Imtaiyaz Hassan, A Islam… - Current Protein and …, 2014 - benthamdirect.com
Solvent accessible surface area (SASA) of proteins has always been considered as a
decisive factor in protein folding and stability studies. It is defined as the surface …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane proteins structures: A review on computational modeling tools

JG Almeida, AJ Preto, PI Koukos, AMJJ Bonvin… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Membrane proteins (MPs) play diverse and important functions in
living organisms. They constitute 20% to 30% of the known bacterial, archaean and …

Structural determinants and functional consequences of protein affinity for membrane rafts

JH Lorent, B Diaz-Rohrer, X Lin, K Spring… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Eukaryotic plasma membranes are compartmentalized into functional lateral domains,
including lipid-driven membrane rafts. Rafts are involved in most plasma membrane …

Computational modeling of membrane proteins

J Koehler Leman, MB Ulmschneider… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The determination of membrane protein (MP) structures has always trailed that of soluble
proteins due to difficulties in their overexpression, reconstitution into membrane mimetics …

Computational design of highly selective antimicrobial peptides

D Juretic, D Vukicevic, N Ilic, N Antcheva… - Journal of chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
We have created a structure-selectivity database (AMPad) of frog-derived, helical
antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), in which the selectivity was determined as a therapeutic …

ACE inhibitory tetrapeptides from Amaranthus hypochondriacus 11S globulin

B Vecchi, MC Añon - Phytochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Amaranth seed is a valuable source of dietary protein with very high nutritional quality, and
recently its potential as a nutraceutical has been proposed. The aim of this work was to …

[HTML][HTML] The desmosome as a model for lipid raft driven membrane domain organization

SE Zimmer, AP Kowalczyk - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2020 - Elsevier
Desmosomes are cadherin-based adhesion structures that mechanically couple the
intermediate filament cytoskeleton of adjacent cells to confer mechanical stress resistance to …

[HTML][HTML] Computational studies of membrane proteins: models and predictions for biological understanding

J Liang, H Naveed, D Jimenez-Morales… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2012 - Elsevier
We discuss recent progresses in computational studies of membrane proteins based on
physical models with parameters derived from bioinformatics analysis. We describe …

Predicting disulfide connectivity from protein sequence using multiple sequence feature vectors and secondary structure

J Song, Z Yuan, H Tan, T Huber, K Burrage - Bioinformatics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Disulfide bonds are primary covalent crosslinks between two cysteine residues
in proteins that play critical roles in stabilizing the protein structures and are commonly found …

Predicting helix–helix interactions from residue contacts in membrane proteins

A Lo, YY Chiu, EA Rødland, PC Lyu, TY Sung… - …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Helix–helix interactions play a critical role in the structure assembly, stability and
function of membrane proteins. On the molecular level, the interactions are mediated by one …