In-cell structural biology by NMR: the benefits of the atomic scale

FX Theillet - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
In-cell structural biology aims at extracting structural information about proteins or nucleic
acids in their native, cellular environment. This emerging field holds great promise and is …

Conformational dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins regulate biomolecular condensate chemistry

A Abyzov, M Blackledge, M Zweckstetter - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Motions in biomolecules are critical for biochemical reactions. In cells, many biochemical
reactions are executed inside of biomolecular condensates formed by ultradynamic …

NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why
malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional …

[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 …

Heterogeneity in protein folding and unfolding reactions

S Bhatia, JB Udgaonkar - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins have dynamic structures that undergo chain motions on time scales spanning from
picoseconds to seconds. Resolving the resultant conformational heterogeneity is essential …

FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices

E Lerner, A Barth, J Hendrix, B Ambrose, V Birkedal… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) has become a mainstream technique for studying
biomolecular structural dynamics. The rapid and wide adoption of smFRET experiments by …

Unveiling invisible protein states with NMR spectroscopy

TR Alderson, LE Kay - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sparsely populated protein states can play significant biological roles.•NMR
spectroscopy can structurally and dynamically characterize 'invisible'protein states.•We …

Conformational plasticity of parallel G-quadruplex─ implications on duplex–Quadruplex motifs

RKR Sannapureddi, MK Mohanty… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA G-quadruplexes are essential motifs in molecular biology performing a wide range of
functions enabled by their unique and diverse structures. In this study, we focus on the …

Intrinsic structural dynamics dictate enzymatic activity and inhibition

VK Shukla, L Siemons… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Enzymes are known to sample various conformations, many of which are critical for their
biological function. However, structural characterizations of enzymes predominantly focus …

Time-resolved crystallography reveals allosteric communication aligned with molecular breathing

P Mehrabi, EC Schulz, R Dsouza… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A comprehensive understanding of protein function demands correlating structure and
dynamic changes. Using time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography, we visualized half …