Nanoscale bioconjugates: A review of the structural attributes of drug-loaded nanocarrier conjugates for selective cancer therapy

W Zhang, R Taheri-Ledari, F Ganjali, FH Afruzi… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Nanobioconjugates are nanoscale drug delivery vehicles that have been conjugated to or
decorated with biologically active targeting ligands. These targeting ligands can be …

Drug affinity responsive target stability (DARTS) accelerated small molecules target discovery: Principles and application

YS Ren, HL Li, XH Piao, ZY Yang, SM Wang… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug affinity responsive target stability (DARTS) is a novel target discovery approach and is
particularly adept at screening small molecule (SM) targets without requiring any structural …

Thermodynamic versus kinetic basis for the high conformational stability of nanobodies for therapeutic applications

A Gómez‐Mulas, M Cano‐Muñoz, E Salido Ruiz… - FEBS …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobodies (NB) are powerful tools for biotechnological and therapeutic applications. They
strongly bind to their targets and are very stable. Early studies showed that NB unfolding is …

Autism-associated SHANK3 missense point mutations impact conformational fluctuations and protein turnover at synapses

M Bucher, S Niebling, Y Han, D Molodenskiy… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Members of the SH3-and ankyrin repeat (SHANK) protein family are considered as master
scaffolds of the postsynaptic density of glutamatergic synapses. Several missense mutations …

Collapse and Protein Folding: Should We Be Surprised that Biothermodynamics Works So Well?

TR Sosnick, MC Baxa - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
A complete understanding of protein function and dynamics requires the characterization of
the multiple thermodynamic states, including the denatured state ensemble (DSE). Whereas …

Exploring the effect of enhanced sampling on protein stability prediction

D Markthaler, M Fleck, B Stankiewicz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Changes in protein stability due to side-chain mutations are evaluated by alchemical free-
energy calculations based on classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit …

Stabilization effect of intrinsically disordered regions on multidomain proteins: the case of the methyl-CpG protein 2, MeCP2

D Ortega-Alarcon, R Claveria-Gimeno, S Vega… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intrinsic disorder plays an important functional role in proteins. Disordered regions are
linked to posttranslational modifications, conformational switching, extra/intracellular …

How hydrophobicity, side chains, and salt affect the dimensions of disordered proteins

MC Baxa, X Lin, CD Mukinay, S Chakravarthy… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the generally accepted role of the hydrophobic effect as the driving force for folding,
many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), including those with hydrophobic content …

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Effectiveness Is Influenced by Non-Epitope Mutation/Binding-Induced Denaturation of the Epitope 3D Architecture

MM Malisheni, M Bates, AA Rizvanov, PA MacAry - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
The public health threat from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) continues to intensify with emerging variants of concern (VOC) aiming to render COVID …

Exploiting cyclodextrins as artificial chaperones to enhance enzyme protection through supramolecular engineering

AF Kalourazi, SA Nazemi, ARU Parambil… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a method of enzyme stabilisation exploiting the artificial protein chaperone
properties of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) covalently embedded in an ultrathin organosilica layer …