Protein thermal stability

S Timr, D Madern, F Sterpone - Progress in molecular biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Proteins, in general, fold to a well-organized three-dimensional structure in order to function.
The stability of this functional shape can be perturbed by external environmental conditions …

Protein condensation, cellular organization, and spatiotemporal regulation of cytoplasmic properties

FW van Tartwijk, CF Kaminski - Advanced Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The cytoplasm is an aqueous, highly crowded solution of active macromolecules. Its
properties influence the behavior of proteins, including their folding, motion, and …

Differential effects of hydrophobic core packing residues for thermodynamic and mechanical stability of a hyperthermophilic protein

KM Tych, M Batchelor, T Hoffmann, MC Wilson… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Proteins from organisms that have adapted to environmental extremes provide attractive
systems to explore and determine the origins of protein stability. Improved hydrophobic core …

A Mode Evolution Metric to Extract Reaction Coordinates for Biomolecular Conformational Transitions

M Das, R Venkatramani - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The complex, multidimensional energy landscape of biomolecules makes the extraction of
suitable, nonintuitive collective variables (CVs) that describe their conformational transitions …

Decoding the Role of the Global Proteome Dynamics for Cellular Thermal Stability

B Caviglia, D Di Bari, S Timr, M Guiral… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanisms underlying the thermal response of cells remain elusive. On the
basis of the recent result that the short-time diffusive dynamics of the Escherichia coli …

How conformational flexibility stabilizes the hyperthermophilic elongation factor g-domain

M Kalimeri, O Rahaman, S Melchionna… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Proteins from thermophilic organisms are stable and functional well above ambient
temperature. Understanding the molecular mechanism underlying such a resistance is of …

Stability and function at high temperature. What makes a thermophilic GTPase different from its mesophilic homologue

M Katava, M Kalimeri, G Stirnemann… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Comparing homologous enzymes adapted to different thermal environments aids to shed
light on their delicate stability/function trade-off. Protein mechanical rigidity was postulated to …

Multi-conformation Monte Carlo: A method for introducing flexibility in efficient simulations of many-protein systems

V Prytkova, M Heyden, D Khago… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present a novel multi-conformation Monte Carlo simulation method that enables the
modeling of protein–protein interactions and aggregation in crowded protein solutions. This …

Diffusion of two molecular species in a crowded environment: theory and experiments

D Fanelli, AJ McKane, G Pompili, B Tiribilli… - Physical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Diffusion of a two component fluid is studied in the framework of differential equations, but
where these equations are systematically derived from a well-defined microscopic model …

Variance of atomic coordinates as a dynamical metric to distinguish proteins and protein–protein interactions in molecular dynamics simulations

S Paul, SRK Ainavarapu… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Protein dynamics is a manifestation of the complex trajectories of these biomolecules on a
multidimensional rugged potential energy surface (PES) driven by thermal energy. At …