Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Trans‐acting translational regulatory RNA binding proteins

RF Harvey, TS Smith, T Mulroney… - Wiley …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The canonical molecular machinery required for global mRNA translation and its control has
been well defined, with distinct sets of proteins involved in the processes of translation …

Aggregation landscapes of Huntingtin exon 1 protein fragments and the critical repeat length for the onset of Huntington's disease

M Chen, PG Wolynes - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by an abnormal
expansion in the polyglutamine (polyQ) track of the Huntingtin (HTT) protein. The severity of …

Invasive mussels fashion silk-like byssus via mechanical processing of massive horizontally acquired coiled coils

M Simmons, N Horbelt, T Sverko… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Zebra and quagga mussels (Dreissena spp.) are invasive freshwater biofoulers that
perpetrate devastating economic and ecological impact. Their success depends on their …

Coiled-coil motifs of RNA-binding proteins: dynamicity in RNA regulation

LK Ford, L Fioriti - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal granules are biomolecular condensates that concentrate high quantities of RNAs
and RNA-related proteins within neurons. These dense packets of information are trafficked …

Exploring the structural acrobatics of fold-switching proteins using simplified structure-based models

I Retamal-Farfán, J González-Higueras… - Biophysical …, 2023 - Springer
Metamorphic proteins are a paradigm of the protein folding process, by encoding two or
more native states, highly dissimilar in terms of their secondary, tertiary, and even …

Dimerization of α-Synuclein fragments studied by isothermal–isobaric replica-permutation molecular dynamics simulation

M Yamauchi, H Okumura - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aggregates and fibrils of intrinsically disordered α-synuclein are associated with Parkinson's
disease. Within a non-amyloid β component (NAC) spanning from the 61st to the 95th …

Divergent CPEB prion-like domains reveal different assembly mechanisms for a generic amyloid-like fold

R Hervás, M del Carmen Fernández-Ramírez… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Amyloids are ordered, insoluble protein aggregates, characterized by a cross-β
sheet quaternary structure in which molecules in a β-strand conformation are stacked along …

The aggregation free energy landscapes of polyglutamine repeats

M Chen, MY Tsai, W Zheng… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Aggregates of proteins containing polyglutamine (polyQ) repeats are strongly associated
with several neurodegenerative diseases. The length of the repeats correlates with the …

Finite element modeling of α-helices and tropocollagen molecules referring to spike of SARS-CoV-2

T Wierzbicki, Y Bai - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
The newly developed finite element (FE) modeling at the atomic scale was used to predict
the static and dynamic response of the α-helix (AH) and tropocollagen (TC) protein …