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 …

NMR-based methods for protein analysis

Y Hu, K Cheng, L He, X Zhang, B Jiang… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a well-established method for
analyzing protein structure, interaction, and dynamics at atomic resolution and in various …

[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 …

Accelerated nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with deep learning

X Qu, Y Huang, H Lu, T Qiu, D Guo… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy serves as an indispensable tool in
chemistry and biology but often suffers from long experimental times. We present a proof‐of …

NMR illuminates intrinsic disorder

HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has long been instrumental in the characterization of
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). This …

The structure of pathogenic huntingtin exon 1 defines the bases of its aggregation propensity

CA Elena-Real, A Sagar, A Urbanek… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion in the
first exon of the HTT gene, resulting in an extended polyglutamine (poly-Q) tract in huntingtin …

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 …

The pathobiology of perturbed mutant huntingtin protein–protein interactions in Huntington's disease

EE Wanker, A Ast, F Schindler, P Trepte… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations are at the root of many human diseases. Still, we largely do not exactly
understand how they trigger pathogenesis. One, more recent, hypothesis has been that they …

Sub‐Micromolar Pulse Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy Reveals Increasing CuII‐labelling of Double‐Histidine Motifs with Lower Temperature

JL Wort, K Ackermann, A Giannoulis… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) distance measurements are making increasingly
important contributions to the studies of biomolecules by providing highly accurate …

Side chain to main chain hydrogen bonds stabilize a polyglutamine helix in a transcription factor

A Escobedo, B Topal, MBA Kunze, J Aranda… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Polyglutamine (polyQ) tracts are regions of low sequence complexity frequently found in
transcription factors. Tract length often correlates with transcriptional activity and expansion …