Theory of protein folding: the energy landscape perspective

JN Onuchic, Z Luthey-Schulten… - Annual review of …, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The energy landscape theory of protein folding is a statistical description of a
protein's potential surface. It assumes that folding occurs through organizing an ensemble of …

Inverse statistical physics of protein sequences: a key issues review

S Cocco, C Feinauer, M Figliuzzi… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the course of evolution, proteins undergo important changes in their amino acid
sequences, while their three-dimensional folded structure and their biological function …

Protein 3D structure computed from evolutionary sequence variation

DS Marks, LJ Colwell, R Sheridan, TA Hopf, A Pagnani… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary trajectory of a protein through sequence space is constrained by its
function. Collections of sequence homologs record the outcomes of millions of evolutionary …

Funnels, pathways, and the energy landscape of protein folding: a synthesis

JD Bryngelson, JN Onuchic, ND Socci… - Proteins: Structure …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding, and even the description of protein folding is impeded by the complexity
of the process. Much of this complexity can be described and understood by taking a …

A field guide to foldamers

DJ Hill, MJ Mio, RB Prince, TS Hughes… - Chemical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
The breadth of structure and function displayed by the molecules of biology is remarkable.
Considering that there are only three major biopolymer backbones (proteins, ribonucleic …

The pairwise energy content estimated from amino acid composition discriminates between folded and intrinsically unstructured proteins

Z Dosztanyi, V Csizmok, P Tompa, I Simon - Journal of molecular biology, 2005 - Elsevier
The structural stability of a protein requires a large number of interresidue interactions. The
energetic contribution of these can be approximated by low-resolution force fields extracted …

Principles of protein folding—a perspective from simple exact models

KA Dill, S Bromberg, K Yue, HS Chan… - Protein …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
General principles of protein structure, stability, and folding kinetics have recently been
explored in computer simulations of simple exact lattice models. These models represent …

Molten globule and protein folding

OB Ptitsyn - Advances in protein chemistry, 1995 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the present state of the studies of the molten
globule state and its role in protein folding and physiological processes. Recent data on the …

Design principles of 3D epigenetic memory systems

JA Owen, D Osmanović, L Mirny - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cells remember their identities, in part, by using epigenetic marks—chemical modifications
placed along the genome. How can mark patterns remain stable over cell generations …

Effective energy functions for protein structure prediction

T Lazaridis, M Karplus - Current opinion in structural biology, 2000 - Elsevier
Protein structure prediction, fold recognition, homology modeling and design rely mainly on
statistical effective energy functions. Although the theoretical foundation of such functions is …