Protein folding theory: from lattice to all-atom models

L Mirny, E Shakhnovich - Annual review of biophysics and …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review focuses on recent advances in understanding protein folding kinetics
in the context of nucleation theory. We present basic concepts such as nucleation, folding …

Creative elements: network-based predictions of active centres in proteins and cellular and social networks

P Csermely - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Active centres and hot spots of proteins have a paramount importance in enzyme action,
protein-complex formation and drug design. Recently, several publications successfully …

Anisotropy of fluctuation dynamics of proteins with an elastic network model

AR Atilgan, SR Durell, RL Jernigan, MC Demirel… - Biophysical journal, 2001 - cell.com
Fluctuations about the native conformation of proteins have proven to be suitably
reproduced with a simple elastic network model, which has shown excellent agreement with …

Protein–protein interactions: structurally conserved residues distinguish between binding sites and exposed protein surfaces

B Ma, T Elkayam, H Wolfson… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Polar residue hot spots have been observed at protein–protein binding sites. Here we show
that hot spots occur predominantly at the interfaces of macromolecular complexes …

Low-frequency normal modes that describe allosteric transitions in biological nanomachines are robust to sequence variations

W Zheng, BR Brooks… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
By representing the high-resolution crystal structures of a number of enzymes using the
elastic network model, it has been shown that only a few low-frequency normal modes are …

Collective motions in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: examination of flexibility and enzyme function

I Bahar, B Erman, RL Jernigan, AR Atilgan… - Journal of molecular …, 1999 - Elsevier
In order to study the inferences of structure for mechanism, the collective motions of the
retroviral reverse transcriptase HIV-1 RT (RT) are examined using the Gaussian network …

Dynamics of large proteins through hierarchical levels of coarse‐grained structures

P Doruker, RL Jernigan, I Bahar - Journal of computational …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Elastic network models have been successful in elucidating the largest scale collective
motions of proteins. These models are based on a set of highly coupled springs, where only …

Allosteric changes in protein structure computed by a simple mechanical model: hemoglobin T↔ R2 transition

C Xu, D Tobi, I Bahar - Journal of molecular biology, 2003 - Elsevier
Information on protein dynamics has been usually inferred from spectroscopic studies of
parts of the proteins, or indirectly from the comparison of the conformations assumed in the …

[HTML][HTML] Specificity of trypsin and chymotrypsin: loop-motion-controlled dynamic correlation as a determinant

W Ma, C Tang, L Lai - Biophysical journal, 2005 - cell.com
Trypsin and chymotrypsin are both serine proteases with high sequence and structural
similarities, but with different substrate specificity. Previous experiments have demonstrated …

Identification of core amino acids stabilizing rhodopsin

AJ Rader, G Anderson, B Isin… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Rhodopsin is the only G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) whose 3D structure is known;
therefore, it serves as a prototype for studies of the GPCR family of proteins. Rhodopsin …