Temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and osmolyte effects on liquid–liquid phase separation in protein condensates: physical chemistry and biological implications

H Cinar, Z Fetahaj, S Cinar, RM Vernon… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins and other biomolecules play a critical role
in the organization of extracellular materials and membrane‐less compartmentalization of …

High-pressure chemical biology and biotechnology

JL Silva, AC Oliveira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In his memorable book published in 1949, The Physics of High Pressure, 1 Bridgman states
that “it is a well-known result of thermodynamics that a substance is only completely …

The hydrophobic effects: Our current understanding

Q Sun - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hydrophobic interactions are involved in and believed to be the fundamental driving force of
many chemical and biological phenomena in aqueous environments. This review focuses …

Temperature effects on hydrophobic interactions: Implications for protein unfolding

Q Sun, Y Fu, W Wang - Chemical Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
According to our recent studies on hydrophobic interactions, this work is devoted to
investigate the temperature effects on hydrophobic interactions. Regarding to hydrophobic …

On the mechanism of cold denaturation

G Graziano - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A theoretical rationalization of the occurrence of cold denaturation for globular proteins was
devised, assuming that the effective size of water molecules depends upon temperature [G …

Contribution of water to pressure and cold denaturation of proteins

V Bianco, G Franzese - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The mechanisms of cold and pressure denaturation of proteins are matter of debate and are
commonly understood as due to water-mediated interactions. Here, we study several cases …

Single-molecule spectroscopy of cold denaturation and the temperature-induced collapse of unfolded proteins

M Aznauryan, D Nettels, A Holla… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Recent Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments show that heat-unfolded
states of proteins become more compact with increasing temperature. At the same time …

GRADE: A code to determine clathrate hydrate structures

F Mahmoudinobar, CL Dias - Computer Physics Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
GRADE is an open-source software package that identifies clathrate hydrate structures
given the atomic coordinates of oxygen atoms of water. These structures are commonly …

Hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds in β-sheet formation

C Narayanan, CL Dias - The journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we investigate interactions of extended conformations of homodimeric peptides
made of small (glycine or alanine) and large hydrophobic (valine or leucine) sidechains …

Pressure-dependent properties of elementary hydrophobic interactions: ramifications for activation properties of protein folding

CL Dias, HS Chan - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014 - ACS Publications
Hydration effects on a pair of methane molecules are investigated by extensive constant-
pressure (NPT) sampling using the TIP4P model of water under 1, 1000, 2000, and 3000 …