Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Effects of in vivo conditions on amyloid aggregation

MC Owen, D Gnutt, M Gao, SKTS Wärmländer… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the grand challenges of biophysical chemistry is to understand the principles that
govern protein misfolding and aggregation, which is a highly complex process that is …

Sequence grammar underlying the unfolding and phase separation of globular proteins

KM Ruff, YH Choi, D Cox, AR Ormsby, Y Myung… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Aberrant phase separation of globular proteins is associated with many diseases. Here, we
use a model protein system to understand how the unfolded states of globular proteins drive …

In-cell NMR: Why and how?

FX Theillet, E Luchinat - Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance …, 2022 - Elsevier
NMR spectroscopy has been applied to cells and tissues analysis since its beginnings, as
early as 1950. We have attempted to gather here in a didactic fashion the broad diversity of …

Not always sticky: Specificity of protein stabilization by sugars is conferred by protein–water hydrogen bonds

GI Olgenblum, N Carmon, D Harries - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solutes added to buffered solutions directly impact protein folding. Protein stabilization by
cosolutes or crowders has been shown to be largely driven by protein–cosolute volume …

Molecular crowding: the history and development of a scientific paradigm

C Alfano, Y Fichou, K Huber, M Weiss, E Spruijt… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
It is now generally accepted that macromolecules do not act in isolation but “live” in a
crowded environment, that is, an environment populated by numerous different molecules …

Protecting Proteins from Desiccation Stress Using Molecular Glasses and Gels

GI Olgenblum, BO Hutcheson, GJ Pielak… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Faced with desiccation stress, many organisms deploy strategies to maintain the integrity of
their cellular components. Amorphous glassy media composed of small molecular solutes or …

Greater than the sum of parts: mechanisms of metabolic regulation by enzyme filaments

KL Hvorecny, JM Kollman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent work in structural biology is shedding light on how many of the enzymes of
intermediary metabolism are self-and co-assembling into large, filamentous polymers or …

Recent progress towards chemically-specific coarse-grained simulation models with consistent dynamical properties

JF Rudzinski - Computation, 2019 - mdpi.com
Coarse-grained (CG) models can provide computationally efficient and conceptually simple
characterizations of soft matter systems. While generic models probe the underlying physics …