Functional, pathogenic, and pharmacological roles of protein folding intermediates

E Biasini, P Faccioli - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein expression and function in eukaryotic cells are tightly harmonized processes
modulated by the combination of different layers of regulation, including transcription …

Development of self-cooperative nanochaperones with enhanced activity to facilitate protein refolding

M Yang, Y Zhang, F Deng, X Wu, Y Chen, F Ma… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Regulating protein folding including assisting de novo folding, preventing misfolding and
aggregation, and facilitating refolding of proteins are of significant importance for retaining …

A Perspective on Interdicting in Protein Misfolding for Therapeutic Drug Design: Modulating the Formation of Nonlocal Contacts in α-Synuclein as a Strategy against …

F Bergasa-Caceres, HA Rabitz - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent work we proposed that interdiction in the earliest contact-formation events along
the folding pathway of key viral proteins could provide a novel avenue for therapeutic drug …

Shedding light on the inhibitory mechanisms of SARS-CoV-1/CoV-2 spike proteins by ACE2-designed peptides

FC Freitas, PHB Ferreira, DC Favaro… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the host cellular receptor that locks onto the
surface spike protein of the 2002 SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) and of the novel, highly …

Live cells versus fixated cells: kinetic measurements of biomolecular interactions with the LigandTracer method and surface plasmon resonance microscopy

T Dong, C Han, X Liu, Z Wang, Y Wang… - Molecular …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cell-based kinetic studies of ligand or candidate drug binding to membrane proteins have
produced affinity and kinetic values that are different from measurements using purified …

Computational design of stapled peptide inhibitor against SARS‐CoV‐2 receptor binding domain

AR Choudhury, A Maity, S Chakraborty… - Peptide …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since its first detection in 2019, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
(SARS‐CoV‐2) has been the cause of millions of deaths worldwide. Despite the …

Deubiquitination detection of p53 protein in living cells by fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy

Y Liu, C Dong, J Ren - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Deubiquitination is a reverse post-translational modification of ubiquitination and plays
significant roles in various signal transduction cascades and protein stability. The p53 is a …

Interdiction of protein folding for therapeutic drug development in SARS CoV-2

F Bergasa-Caceres, HA Rabitz - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this article, we predict the folding initiation events of the ribose phosphatase domain of
protein Nsp3 and the receptor binding domain of the spike protein from the severe acute …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular dynamic study of B. subtilis laccase against POME waste components with temperature variations and adjustment of active site mutations

H Zahra, L Ambarsari, I Setyawati… - … Research in Applied …, 2023 - researchgate.net
One type of liquid waste produced by Crude Palm Oil processing is Palm Oil Mill Effluent
(POME). This waste is a big challenge for the environment because of its dark brown color …

The promise of mutation resistant drugs for SARS-CoV-2 that interdict in the folding of the spike protein receptor binding domain

F Bergasa-Caceres, HA Rabitz - COVID, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent work, we proposed that effective therapeutic drugs aimed at treating the SARS-CoV-
2 infection could be developed based on interdicting in the early steps of the folding …