Phase transitions of associative biomacromolecules

RV Pappu, SR Cohen, F Dar, M Farag, M Kar - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids, collectively referred to as multivalent associative
biomacromolecules, provide the driving forces for the formation and compositional …

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 …

Liquid–liquid phase separation modifies the dynamic properties of intrinsically disordered proteins

S Guseva, V Schnapka, W Adamski… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation of flexible biomolecules has been identified as a ubiquitous
phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles that harbor a multitude …

Biophysical experiments and biomolecular simulations: A perfect match?

S Bottaro, K Lindorff-Larsen - Science, 2018 - science.org
A fundamental challenge in biological research is achieving an atomic-level description and
mechanistic understanding of the function of biomolecules. Techniques for biomolecular …

Global structure of the intrinsically disordered protein tau emerges from its local structure

LS Stelzl, LM Pietrek, A Holla, J Oroz, M Sikora… - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The paradigmatic disordered protein tau plays an important role in neuronal function and
neurodegenerative diseases. To disentangle the factors controlling the balance between …

Conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins and flexible multidomain proteins

FE Thomasen, K Lindorff-Larsen - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and multidomain proteins with flexible linkers show a
high level of structural heterogeneity and are best described by ensembles consisting of …

[HTML][HTML] On the potential of machine learning to examine the relationship between sequence, structure, dynamics and function of intrinsically disordered proteins

K Lindorff-Larsen, BB Kragelund - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) constitute a broad set of proteins with few uniting and
many diverging properties. IDPs—and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) interspersed …

Binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins: theory, simulation, and experiment

L Mollica, LM Bessa, X Hanoulle, MR Jensen… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, protein science has been revolutionized by the discovery of intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs). In contrast to the classical paradigm that a given protein …

Single-molecule FRET for probing nanoscale biomolecular dynamics

D Nettels, N Galvanetto, MT Ivanović, M Nüesch… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-molecule spectroscopy is a powerful method for studying the physics of molecular
systems, particularly biomolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. By avoiding …

How does it really move? Recent progress in the investigation of protein nanosecond dynamics by NMR and simulation

O Stenström, C Champion, M Lehner… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin relaxation experiments currently probe molecular
motions on timescales from picoseconds to nanoseconds. The detailed interpretation of …