Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

Molecular knots in biology and chemistry

NCH Lim, SE Jackson - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Knots and entanglements are ubiquitous. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, these fascinating
topological entities can be either useful or cumbersome. In recent decades, the importance …

Conservation of complex knotting and slipknotting patterns in proteins

JI Sulkowska, EJ Rawdon, KC Millet, JN Onuchic… - Biophysical …, 2012 - cell.com
The last decade has shown that there are an increasing numbers of known proteins that
contain linear open knots or slipknots in their native folded structure. In general, knots in …

Energy landscape of knotted protein folding

JI Sułkowska, JK Noel… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Recent experiments have conclusively shown that proteins are able to fold from an
unknotted, denatured polypeptide to the knotted, native state without the aid of chaperones …

YibK is the 2′-O-methyltransferase TrmL that modifies the wobble nucleotide in Escherichia coli tRNALeu isoacceptors

A Benítez-Páez, M Villarroya, S Douthwaite… - Rna, 2010 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Transfer RNAs are the most densely modified nucleic acid molecules in living cells. In
Escherichia coli, more than 30 nucleoside modifications have been characterized, ranging …

Topological descriptions of protein folding

E Flapan, A He, H Wong - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
How knotted proteins fold has remained controversial since the identification of deeply
knotted proteins nearly two decades ago. Both computational and experimental approaches …

Enzymology of tRNA modification in the bacterial MnmEG pathway

ME Armengod, I Moukadiri, S Prado, R Ruiz-Partida… - Biochimie, 2012 - Elsevier
Among all RNAs, tRNA exhibits the largest number and the widest variety of post-
transcriptional modifications. Modifications within the anticodon stem loop, mainly at the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-GPU UNRES for scalable coarse-grained simulations of very large protein systems

KM Ocetkiewicz, C Czaplewski, H Krawczyk… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Graphical Processor Units (GPUs) are nowadays widely used in all-atom molecular
simulations because of the advantage of efficient partitioning of atom pairs between the …

Hysteresis as a marker for complex, overlapping landscapes in proteins

BT Andrews, DT Capraro, JI Sulkowska… - The journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Topologically complex proteins fold by multiple routes as a result of hard-to-fold regions of
the proteins. Oftentimes, these regions are introduced into the protein scaffold for function …

Folding analysis of the most complex Stevedore's protein knot

I Wang, SY Chen, STD Hsu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
DehI is a homodimeric haloacid dehalogenase from Pseudomonas putida that contains the
most complex 61 Stevedore's protein knot within its folding topology. To examine how DehI …