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Understanding how proteins fold into their native structure is a fundamental problem in biophysics, crucial for protein design. It has been hypothesized that the formation of a molten globule intermediate precedes folding to the native conformation of glob ...

NATL ACAD SCIENCES2022

Towards automating de novo protein design for novel functionalities: controlling protein folds and protein-protein interactions

Zander Harteveld

The sheer size of the protein sequence space is massive: a protein of 100 residues can have 20^100 possible sequence combinations; and knowing that this exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, the chance of randomly discovering a stable new sequence w ...

EPFL2022

Statistical potentials from the Gaussian scaling behaviour of chain fragments buried within protein globules

Stefano Zamuner

Knowledge-based approaches use the statistics collected from protein data-bank structures to estimate effective interaction potentials between amino acid pairs. Empirical relations are typically employed that are based on the crucial choice of a reference ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

Repair or Degrade: the Thermodynamic Dilemma of Cellular Protein Quality-Control

Paolo De Los Rios, Pierre Goloubinoff, Satyam Tiwari, Mathieu Rebeaud, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet

Life is a non-equilibrium phenomenon. Owing to their high free energy content, the macromolecules of life tend to spontaneously react with ambient oxygen and water and turn into more stable inorganic molecules. A similar thermodynamic picture applies to th ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Predicting the effects of mutations on protein stability is a key problem in fundamental and applied biology, still unsolved even for the relatively simple case of small, soluble, globular, monomeric, two-state-folder proteins. Many articles discuss the li ...

2021

Method for generating variants of a protein

Patrick Daniel Barth

The present relates to a method for generating variants of a protein based on a native protein regulated by allosteric pathway, the method comprising: - i) providing 3D structures of the native protein; - ii) identifying at least one pair of coupled allost ...

2021

Method for generating variants of a protein

Patrick Daniel Barth

The present relates to a method for generating variants of a protein based on a native protein regulated by allosteric pathway, the method comprising:- i) providing 3D structures of the native protein;- ii) identifying at least one pair of coupled alloster ...

2021

An Overview of Serum Albumin Interactions with Biomedical Alloys

Stefano Mischler, Oksana Klok

Understanding the interactions between biomedical alloys and body fluids is of importance for the successful and safe performance of implanted devices. Albumin, as the first protein that comes in contact with an implant surface, can determine the biocompat ...

MDPI2020

Non equilibrium thermodynamics of protein organization

Alberto Stefano Sassi

Three quarters of the thesis will be devoted to the discussion of non equilibrium systems. We show how certain biological systems cannot be described by standard thermodynamics. The reason is that the energy consumption due to the hydrolysis of ATP imposes ...

EPFL2018

Chaperones convert the energy from ATP into the nonequilibrium stabilization of native proteins

Paolo De Los Rios, Alessandro Barducci, Pierre Goloubinoff, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Alberto Stefano Sassi

During and after protein translation, molecular chaperones require ATP hydrolysis to favor the native folding of their substrates and, under stress, to avoid aggregation and revert misfolding. Why do some chaperones need ATP, and what are the consequences ...

2018