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Conformational ensembles

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Exploring the relevance of gas-phase structures to biology: cold ion spectroscopy of the decapeptide neurokinin A

Linking the intrinsic tertiary structures of biomolecules to their native geometries is a central prerequisite for making gas-phase studies directly relevant to biology. The isolation of molecules in the gas phase eliminates hydrophilic interactions with s ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Molecular dynamics simulations of the intrinsically disordered protein amelogenin

John Christopher Plummer, Matteo Gregorio Modesto Marascio, Alessandra Apicella, Vincenzo Colangelo

Amelogenin refers to a class of intrinsically disordered proteins that are the major constituents of enamel matrix derivative (EMD), an extract of porcine fetal teeth used in regenerative periodontal therapy. Modifications in molecular conformation induced ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2017

Molecular chaperones inject energy from ATP hydrolysis into the non-equilibrium stabilisation of native proteins

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

Protein homeostasis, namely the ensemble of cellular mechanisms collectively controlling the activity, stability and conformational states of proteins, depends on energy-consuming processes. De novo protein synthesis requires ATP hydrolysis for peptide bon ...

2017

Effect of N-Terminal Myristoylation on the Active Conformation of Gα

Ursula Röthlisberger, Siri Camee van Keulen

G proteins are part of the G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signal transduction cascade in which they transfer a signal from the membrane-embedded GPCR to other proteins in the cell. In the case of the inhibitory G-protein heterotrimer, permanent N-termin ...

2017

Conformational Structures of a Decapeptide Validated by First Principles Calculations and Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Thomas Rizzo, Vladimir Kopysov, Natalia Nagornova, Robert Benny Gerber

Calculated structures of the two most stable conformers of a protonated decapeptide gramicidin S in the gas phase have been validated by comparing the vibrational spectra, calculat- ed from first- principles and measured in a wide spectral range using infr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2015

Assessing the potential of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to probe reversible protein-protein recognition and binding

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

Protein-protein recognition and binding are governed by diffusion, noncovalent forces and conformational flexibility, entangled in a way that only molecular dynamics simulations can dissect at high resolution. Here we exploited ubiquitin's noncovalent dime ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

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

Real-Time Monitoring of Protein Conformational Changes Using a Nano-Mechanical Sensor

Giovanni Dietler, Paolo De Los Rios, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Dusan Vobornik, Fabrizio Benedetti, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy

Proteins can switch between different conformations in response to stimuli, such as pH or temperature variations, or to the binding of ligands. Such plasticity and its kinetics can have a crucial functional role, and their characterization has taken center ...

Public Library of Science2014

Active Conformation Control of Unfolded Proteins by Hyperthermal Collision with a Metal Surface

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

The physical and chemical properties of macromolecules like proteins are strongly dependent on their conformation. The degrees of freedom of their chemical bonds generate a huge conformational space, of which, however, only a small fraction is accessible i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

mu ABC: a systematic microsecond molecular dynamics study of tetranucleotide sequence effects in B-DNA

John Maddocks, Daiva Petkeviciute, Marco Pasi, Jonathan Mitchell

We present the results of microsecond molecular dynamics simulations carried out by the ABC group of laboratories on a set of B-DNA oligomers containing the 136 distinct tetranucleotide base sequences. We demonstrate that the resulting trajectories have ex ...

Oxford Univ Press2014

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