The GroEL–GroES chaperonin machine: a nano-cage for protein folding

M Hayer-Hartl, A Bracher, FU Hartl - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The bacterial chaperonin GroEL and its cofactor GroES constitute the paradigmatic
molecular machine of protein folding. GroEL is a large double-ring cylinder with ATPase …

Recent advances in understanding catalysis of protein folding by molecular chaperones

D Balchin, M Hayer‐Hartl, FU Hartl - FEBS letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular chaperones are highly conserved proteins that promote proper folding of other
proteins in vivo. Diverse chaperone systems assist de novo protein folding and trafficking …

Prottrans: Toward understanding the language of life through self-supervised learning

A Elnaggar, M Heinzinger, C Dallago… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational biology and bioinformatics provide vast data gold-mines from protein
sequences, ideal for Language Models (LMs) taken from Natural Language Processing …

[HTML][HTML] The cotranslational function of ribosome-associated Hsp70 in eukaryotic protein homeostasis

F Willmund, M del Alamo, S Pechmann, T Chen… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
In eukaryotic cells a molecular chaperone network associates with translating ribosomes,
assisting the maturation of emerging nascent polypeptides. Hsp70 is perhaps the major …

[HTML][HTML] The ribosome as a hub for protein quality control

S Pechmann, F Willmund, J Frydman - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Cells face a constant challenge as they produce new proteins. The newly synthesized
polypeptides must be folded properly to avoid aggregation. If proteins do misfold, they must …

Chemical synthesis of human proteoforms and application in biomedicine

H Ai, M Pan, L Liu - ACS Central Science, 2024 - ACS Publications
Limited understanding of human proteoforms with complex posttranslational modifications
and the underlying mechanisms poses a major obstacle to research on human health and …

Colloquium: Random first order transition theory concepts in biology and physics

TR Kirkpatrick, D Thirumalai - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
The routine transformation of a liquid, as it is rapidly cooled, resulting in glass formation, is
remarkably complex. A theoretical explanation of the dynamics associated with this process …

[HTML][HTML] GroEL/ES chaperonin modulates the mechanism and accelerates the rate of TIM-barrel domain folding

F Georgescauld, K Popova, AJ Gupta, A Bracher… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The GroEL/ES chaperonin system functions as a protein folding cage. Many obligate
substrates of GroEL share the (βα) 8 TIM-barrel fold, but how the chaperonin promotes …

Interaction Potentials of Anisotropic Nanocrystals from the Trajectory Sampling of Particle Motion using in Situ Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy

Q Chen, H Cho, K Manthiram, M Yoshida… - ACS central …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a generalizable strategy to use the relative trajectories of pairs and groups
of nanocrystals, and potentially other nanoscale objects, moving in solution which can now …

Mass spectrometry methods for studying structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules

L Konermann, S Vahidi, MA Sowole - Analytical chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
All processes that occur within living organisms are intimately linked to biological
macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, or polysaccharides. Phospholipid …