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Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Fisher-Kolmogorov equation with application to a-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease

This spreading of prion proteins is at the basis of brain neurodegeneration. This paper deals with the numerical modelling of the misfolding process of a-synuclein in Parkinson's disease. We introduce and analyse a discontinuous Galerkin method for the sem ...

Lausanne2023

Roles of Epigenetic Dysregulation in Cancer Progression and Metastasis

Mohammad Sadegh Saghafinia

Nearly all the cells of an organism share the same DNA sequence or genome, and yet they show different phenotypes and carry out different functions. This diversity is made possible by a verity of molecular modifications acting on the DNA sequence that coll ...

EPFL2020

Efficient conversion of chemical energy into mechanical work by Hsp70 chaperones

Paolo De Los Rios, Alessandro Barducci, Salvatore Assenza, Alberto Stefano Sassi

Hsp70 molecular chaperones are abundant ATP-dependent nanomachines that actively reshape non-native, misfolded proteins and assist a wide variety of essential cellular processes. Here, we combine complementary theoretical approaches to elucidate the struct ...

2019

Experimental Milestones in the Discovery of Molecular Chaperones as Polypeptide Unfolding Enzymes

Pierre Goloubinoff, Andrija Finka

Molecular chaperones control the cellular folding, assembly, unfolding, disassembly, translocation, activation, inactivation, disaggregation, and degradation of proteins. In 1989, groundbreaking experiments demonstrated that a purified chaperone can bind a ...

Annual Reviews2016

Gas-phase probes of kinetically trapped peptides

Liudmila Voronina

Gas-phase techniques are promising for studying intrinsically disordered peptides and proteins, as they can be implemented in a conformer-selective way. One of the issues that prevent them from finding a broader use is the question of to which extent the s ...

EPFL2016

Probing the Unfolded Configurations of a β-Hairpin Using Sketch-Map

Michele Ceriotti, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Michele Parrinello

This work examines the conformational ensemble involved in beta-hairpin folding by means of advanced molecular dynamics simulations and dimensionality reduction. A fully atomistic description of the protein and the surrounding solvent molecules is used, an ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Spectroscopic studies of kinetically trapped conformations in the gas phase: the case of triply protonated bradykinin

Thomas Rizzo, Liudmila Voronina

Understanding the relation between the gas-phase structure of biological molecules and their solution-phase structure is important when attempting to use gas-phase techniques to address biologically relevant questions. Directly after electrospray ionizatio ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Solvent Effects on the Encapsulation of Divalent Ions by Benzo-18-Crown-6 and Benzo-15-Crown-5

Thomas Rizzo, Yoshiya Inokuchi

We measure UV photodissociation (UVPD) spectra of cold benzo-15-crown-5 (B15C5) and benzo-18-crown-6 (B18C6) complexes with divalent ions (M2+ = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, and Mn2+), solvated with an H2O or a CH3OH molecule: M2+·B15C5·H2O, M2+·B15C5·CH3OH, M2+·B18C ...

American Chemical Society2015

New Insights Into Amyloid Formation and Structure by Innovative Atomic Force Microscopy Methods

Francesco Simone Ruggeri

Today, more than 40 million people worldwide are affected by neurodegenerative disorders. Onset of these diseases is associated with insoluble fibrillar protein aggregates, termed amyloids. The molecular origin and the link between amyloid formation and di ...

EPFL2015

Modeling and Engineering Proteins Thermostability

Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres

Enzymes have evolved during millions of years to become efficient catalysts for specific biochemical reactions within a specific range of working conditions in the cellular environment. The activity of an enzyme is directly related to its folded structure ...

EPFL2015

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