Water determines the structure and dynamics of proteins

MC Bellissent-Funel, A Hassanali, M Havenith… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Water is an essential participant in the stability, structure, dynamics, and function of proteins
and other biomolecules. Thermodynamically, changes in the aqueous environment affect …

Life in Multi-Extreme Environments: Brines, Osmotic and Hydrostatic Pressure─ A Physicochemical View

JM Knop, S Mukherjee, MW Jaworek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Elucidating the details of the formation, stability, interactions, and reactivity of biomolecular
systems under extreme environmental conditions, including high salt concentrations in …

Native contacts determine protein folding mechanisms in atomistic simulations

RB Best, G Hummer, WA Eaton - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The recent availability of long equilibrium simulations of protein folding in atomistic detail for
more than 10 proteins allows us to identify the key interactions driving folding. We find that …

Temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and osmolyte effects on liquid–liquid phase separation in protein condensates: physical chemistry and biological implications

H Cinar, Z Fetahaj, S Cinar, RM Vernon… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins and other biomolecules play a critical role
in the organization of extracellular materials and membrane‐less compartmentalization of …

Effects of Crowding and Cosolutes on Biomolecular Function at Extreme Environmental Conditions

J Peters, R Oliva, A Caliò, P Oger, R Winter - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The extent of the effect of cellular crowding and cosolutes on the functioning of proteins and
cells is manifold and includes the stabilization of the biomolecular systems, the excluded …

Interrogating the structural dynamics and energetics of biomolecular systems with pressure modulation

R Winter - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
High hydrostatic pressure affects the structure, dynamics, and stability of biomolecular
systems and is a key parameter in the context of the exploration of the origin and the …

Design principles for high–pressure force fields: Aqueous TMAO solutions from ambient to kilobar pressures

C Hölzl, P Kibies, S Imoto, R Frach… - The Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate force fields are one of the major pillars on which successful molecular dynamics
simulations of complex biomolecular processes rest. They have been optimized for ambient …

Pressure—A gateway to fundamental insights into protein solvation, dynamics, and function

TQ Luong, S Kapoor, R Winter - ChemPhysChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Now that the centennial anniversary of the first report on pressure denaturation of proteins
by Nobel Laureate PW Bridgman can be celebrated, this Review on the application of high …

Fast protein folding kinetics

H Gelman, M Gruebele - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Fast-folding proteins have been a major focus of computational and experimental study
because they are accessible to both techniques: they are small and fast enough to be …

Micromixers and their applications in kinetic analysis of biochemical reactions

C Liu, Y Li, BF Liu - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
Investigating the kinetics of biochemical reactions plays vital roles in understanding the
reaction mechanism. However, many biochemical reactions occur in the time scale of …