Protein Association in Solution: Statistical Mechanical Modeling

V Vlachy, YV Kalyuzhnyi, B Hribar-Lee, KA Dill - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Protein molecules associate in solution, often in clusters beyond pairwise, leading to liquid
phase separations and high viscosities. It is often impractical to study these multi-protein …

Melatonin: regulation of prion protein phase separation in cancer multidrug resistance

D Loh, RJ Reiter - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The unique ability to adapt and thrive in inhospitable, stressful tumor microenvironments
(TME) also renders cancer cells resistant to traditional chemotherapeutic treatments and/or …

Critical beginnings: Selective tuning of solubility and structural accuracy of newly synthesized proteins by the Hsp70 chaperone system

RM Addabbo, RB Hutchinson, HJ Allaman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteins are particularly prone to aggregation immediately after release from the ribosome,
and it is therefore important to elucidate the role of chaperones during these key steps of …

Fluorogenic methodology for visualization of phase separation in chemical biology

J Fang, Y Huang, J Wu, B Shen, Y Yang… - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase separation is a common biological phenomenon in the liquid environment of
organisms. Phase separation has been shown to be a key cause of many existing incurable …

The post-translational modification SUMO affects TDP-43 phase separation, compartmentalization, and aggregation in a zebrafish model

C Maurel, NM Scherer, A Hogan, A Vidal-Itriago… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
SUMMARY TDP-43 is a nuclear RNA-binding protein that can undergo liquid-liquid phase
separation (LLPS) and forms pathological insoluble aggregates in frontotemporal dementia …

Characterizing the Self Association of the Intrinsically Disordered Low-Complexity Domain of the RNA Binding Protein EWS

CN Johnson - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The RNA-binding protein EWS is a multifunctional protein with roles in the regulation of
transcription and RNA splicing. It is one of the FET (FUS, EWS and TAF15) family of RNA …