Nanodiscs in membrane biochemistry and biophysics

IG Denisov, SG Sligar - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins play a most important part in metabolism, signaling, cell motility,
transport, development, and many other biochemical and biophysical processes which …

[HTML][HTML] Visualizing and trapping transient oligomers in amyloid assembly pathways

EE Cawood, TK Karamanos, AJ Wilson… - Biophysical chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Oligomers which form during amyloid fibril assembly are considered to be key contributors
towards amyloid disease. However, understanding how such intermediates form, their …

HP1 reshapes nucleosome core to promote phase separation of heterochromatin

S Sanulli, MJ Trnka, V Dharmarajan, RW Tibble… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Heterochromatin affects genome function at many levels. It enables heritable gene
repression, maintains chromosome integrity and provides mechanical rigidity to the …

Facing and overcoming sensitivity challenges in biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

JH Ardenkjaer‐Larsen, GS Boebinger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the Spring of 2013, NMR spectroscopists convened at the Weizmann Institute in Israel to
brainstorm on approaches to improve the sensitivity of NMR experiments, particularly when …

An NMR view of protein dynamics in health and disease

A Sekhar, LE Kay - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Biological molecules are often highly dynamic, and this flexibility can be critical for function.
The large range of sampled timescales and the fact that many of the conformers that are …

AI-designed NMR spectroscopy RF pulses for fast acquisition at high and ultra-high magnetic fields

VS Manu, C Olivieri, G Veglia - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful high-resolution tool for
characterizing biomacromolecular structure, dynamics, and interactions. However, the …

Poly (ADP-ribosyl) ation enhances nucleosome dynamics and organizes DNA damage repair components within biomolecular condensates

ML Nosella, TH Kim, SK Huang, RW Harkness… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Nucleosomes, the basic structural units of chromatin, hinder recruitment and activity of
various DNA repair proteins, necessitating modifications that enhance DNA accessibility …

Lipid nanodiscs for high-resolution NMR studies of membrane proteins

U Günsel, F Hagn - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins (MPs) play essential roles in numerous cellular processes. Because
around 70% of the currently marketed drugs target MPs, a detailed understanding of their …

Two-dimensional NMR lineshape analysis

CA Waudby, A Ramos, LD Cabrita, J Christodoulou - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
NMR titration experiments are a rich source of structural, mechanistic, thermodynamic and
kinetic information on biomolecular interactions, which can be extracted through the …

Biomolecular solid-state NMR spectroscopy at 1200 MHz: the gain in resolution

M Callon, AA Malär, S Pfister, V Římal… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2021 - Springer
Progress in NMR in general and in biomolecular applications in particular is driven by
increasing magnetic-field strengths leading to improved resolution and sensitivity of the …