Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

Heterogeneity in protein folding and unfolding reactions

S Bhatia, JB Udgaonkar - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins have dynamic structures that undergo chain motions on time scales spanning from
picoseconds to seconds. Resolving the resultant conformational heterogeneity is essential …

Recent advances in small-angle scattering and its expanding impact in structural biology

J Trewhella - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
Applications of small-angle scattering (SAS) in structural biology have benefited from
continuing developments in instrumentation, tools for data analysis, modeling capabilities …

Tracking the ATP-binding response in adenylate kinase in real time

F Orädd, H Ravishankar, J Goodman, P Rogne… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The biological function of proteins is critically dependent on dynamics inherent to the native
structure. Such structural dynamics obey a predefined order and temporal timing to execute …

Structural dynamics of protein-protein association involved in the light-induced transition of Avena sativa LOV2 protein

C Kim, SR Yun, SJ Lee, SO Kim, H Lee, J Choi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Light-oxygen-voltage-sensing domain (LOV) superfamily, found in enzymes and signal
transduction proteins, plays a crucial role in converting light signals into structural signals …

Reaction dynamics studied via femtosecond X-ray liquidography at X-ray free-electron lasers

EH Choi, Y Lee, J Heo, H Ihee - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses suitable for pump–
probe time-resolved studies with a femtosecond time resolution. Since the advent of the first …

Light-induced protein structural dynamics in bacteriophytochrome revealed by time-resolved x-ray solution scattering

SJ Lee, TW Kim, JG Kim, C Yang, SR Yun, C Kim… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bacteriophytochromes (BphPs) are photoreceptors that regulate a wide range of biological
mechanisms via red light–absorbing (Pr)–to–far-red light–absorbing (Pfr) reversible …

Recent advances in structural characterization of biomacromolecules in foods via small-angle X-ray scattering

Y Sun, X Li, R Chen, F Liu, S Wei - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a method for examining the solution structure,
oligomeric state, conformational changes, and flexibility of biomacromolecules at a scale …

Time-resolved X-ray scattering studies of proteins

HS Cho, F Schotte, V Stadnytskyi, P Anfinrud - Current opinion in structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Time-resolved small-and wide-angle X-ray scattering studies of proteins in solution based
on the pump-probe approach unveil structural information from intermediates over a broad …

Determining the charge distribution and the direction of bond cleavage with femtosecond anisotropic x-ray liquidography

J Heo, JG Kim, EH Choi, H Ki, DS Ahn, J Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Energy, structure, and charge are fundamental quantities characterizing a molecule.
Whereas the energy flow and structure change in chemical reactions are experimentally …