Alternative stable conformation capable of protein misinteraction links tRNA synthetase to peripheral neuropathy. Nucleic Acids ... "Alternative stable conformation capable of protein misinteraction links tRNA synthetase to peripheral neuropathy". Nucleic ... Two conformations of a crystalline human tRNA synthetase-tRNA complex: implications for protein synthesis. EMBO J. 2006;25(12): ... "Two conformations of a crystalline human tRNA synthetase-tRNA complex: implications for protein synthesis". The EMBO Journal. ...
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These are used to determine dynamical pathways between different protein conformations using Monte Carlo methods. Proteins are ... stable enough to maintain a three-dimensional structure, but flexible enough for biological function. The aim of this research ... The flexible regions in proteins and protein complexes are determined from the x-ray structure as determined ... to better understand the evolution and function of proteins and protein complexes. Gohlke, Holger; Thorpe, M.F. (2006). "A ...
... proteins are only marginally stable because the free energy released when the protein folded into its native conformation is ... In biochemistry, globular proteins or spheroproteins are spherical ("globe-like") proteins and are one of the common protein ... Regulatory roles are also performed by globular proteins rather than fibrous proteins. Structural proteins, e.g., actin and ... As the free energy difference in a globular protein that results from folding into its native conformation is small, it is ...
Anfinsen showed that the native state of a protein is thermodynamically stable, the conformation being at a global minimum of ... of protein domains Protein Protein structure Protein structure prediction Protein structure prediction software Protein ... Protein structure, Protein domains, Protein families, Protein superfamilies). ... Protein modules are a subset of protein domains which are found across a range of different proteins with a particularly ...
This unusual geometry is induced by the rigid "pre-organized" conformation of the ligand donors by the protein, which is an ... This distorted geometry is less stable than ideal tetrahedral geometry due to its lower ligand field stabilization as a result ... The protein is a prototype of the blue copper proteins, a family of intensely blue-colored metalloproteins. Specifically, it ... The reorganization energy of blue copper proteins such as plastocyanin from 0.7 to 1.2 eV (68-116 kJ/mol) compared to 2.4 eV ( ...
Many proteins can also undergo aggregation and misfolding. For example, prions are stable conformations of proteins which ... In bovine spongiform encephalopathy, native proteins re-fold into a different stable conformation, which causes fatal amyloid ... and formation of protein complexes facilitated by chaperones. Some proteins need the assistance of chaperone proteins to fold ... The switching between alternative structures is driven by interactions of the protein with small ligands or other proteins, by ...
She offered that the ability to perform biological function is determined by how stable, or populated, a protein is in its ... She proposed that all conformations pre-exist, and the model of "conformational selection and population shift" as an ... Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. 12 (9): 713-720. doi:10.1093/protein/12.9.713. ISSN 1741-0134. PMID 10506280. Tsai, ... "Is allostery an intrinsic property of all dynamic proteins?". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 57 (3): 433- ...
... which change their conformation unless they are bound to a specific partner such as another protein. With a prion, two protein ... These amyloid fibrils are seen as the result of pathogenic proteins that self-propagate and form highly stable, non-functional ... One idea, the "Protein X" hypothesis, is that an as-yet unidentified cellular protein (Protein X) enables the conversion of ... While asserting that the flow of sequence information from protein to protein, or from protein to RNA and DNA was "precluded", ...
... conformation (geometry), but serve as its stabilizers. Within cytoplasm cysteine residues of proteins are saved in reduced ... Lysozyme is stable enough to be applied as a drug. Feathers and hair have relative strength, and consisting in them keratin is ... tertiary protein structure) as well as between two cysteine residues in two separated protein subunits (quaternary protein ... In general disulfide bonds are necessary in proteins functioning outside cellular space, and they do not change proteins' ...
Hemoglobin binds oxygen cooperatively due to steric conformation changes in the protein complex, which increases hemoglobin's ... 1999). "Crystal Structure and Reversible O2-Binding of a Room Temperature Stable μ-η2:η2-Peroxodicopper(II) Complex of a ... Hexamerins are storage proteins commonly found in insects. These proteins are synthesized by the larval fat body and are ... These proteins have a similar structure and function, but lack the copper binding sites. The evolutionary changes within the ...
Globular proteins often assume a stable structure, unlike fibrous proteins, which have multiple conformations. The three- ... Protein-protein interactions can be designed using protein design algorithms because the principles that rule protein stability ... infection involve protein-protein interactions. Thus, to treat such diseases, it is desirable to design protein or protein-like ... which makes globular proteins more attractive for protein design than the other types of proteins. Most successful protein ...
β-Sheets predominate as the secondary level of protein conformation.[citation needed] The structure of trans-sialidase includes ... H274Y has emphasized the need for suitable expression systems to obtain large quantities of highly pure and stable, recombinant ... There are two major proteins on the surface of influenza virus particles. One is the lectin haemagglutinin protein with three ... The first step involves the distortion of the α-sialoside from a 2C5 chair conformation (the lowest-energy form in solution) to ...
... which are already large enough to fold independently into stable domains. Some well-known examples of proteins with tandem ... Approximately half of the tandem repeat regions have intrinsically disordered conformation being naturally unfolded. Examples ... Tandem repeat proteins frequently function as protein-protein interaction modules. The WD40 repeat is a prime example of this ... For example, they are present in almost every third human protein and even in every second protein from Plasmodium falciparum ...
Sibanda, B.L.; Blundell, T.L.; Thorton, J.M. (1985). "Conformations of Beta-Hairpins in Protein Structures". Nature(London) 316 ... Blanco, F. J.; Rivas, G.; Serrano, L. (1994). "A short linear peptide that folds into a native stable beta-hairpin in aqueous ... To see this clearly, the Pin1 Domain protein is shown to the left as an example. Proteins that are β-sheet rich, also called WW ... function by adhering to proline-rich and/or phosphorylated peptides to mediate protein-protein interactions. The "WW" refers to ...
Such proteins are flexible in nature, lacking a stable tertiary structure, and therefore cannot be described with a single ... Ensembles are models consisting of a set of conformations that together attempt to describe the structure of a flexible protein ... "Cooperative unfolding of compact conformations of the intrinsically disordered protein osteopontin". Biochemistry. 52 (31): ... extending the structure-function paradigm from folded proteins to intrinsically disordered proteins. The calculation of ...
If each of these bond angles can be in one of three stable conformations, the protein may misfold into a maximum of 3198 ... Chaperone - proteins that assist other proteins in folding or unfolding Folding funnel Anfinsen's dogma Levinthal, Cyrus (1969 ... Some computational approaches to protein structure prediction have sought to identify and simulate the mechanism of protein ... if a protein were to attain its correctly folded configuration by sequentially sampling all the possible conformations, it ...
Given that proteins vary in abundance, size, hydrophobicity (water insolubility), structure, conformation (shape), function and ... forming stable polymers. ... Ancient enamel proteins are useful when aDNA or other proteins ... protein unfolding) or other diagenetic processes. Ancient proteins also tend to be fragmented, damaged and altered. Proteins ... However, ancient proteins are still one of the most informative biomolecules. Proteins tend to degrade more slowly than DNA, ...
... and some of the less stable variants are intrinsically disordered proteins. These proteins exist and function in a relatively ' ... To be able to perform their biological function, proteins fold into one or more specific spatial conformations driven by a ... The sequence of a protein is unique to that protein, and defines the structure and function of the protein. The sequence of a ... Bu Z, Callaway DJ (2011). "Proteins MOVE! Protein dynamics and long-range allostery in cell signaling". Protein Structure and ...
Protein targets are incubated with small molecules to allow for the formation of stable ligand-protein complexes, unbound small ... A single protein type in solution may be represented by individual molecules in a variety of conformations, with many of them ... Instead, it rests on the assumption that drugs form stable complexes with their target proteins, and that those complexes are ... Upon binding a drug, the majority of ligand-bound protein enters an energetically favorable conformation, and moves away from ...
The staggered conformation is more stable by 12.5 kJ/mol than the eclipsed conformation, which is the energy maximum for ethane ... Protein folding also generates stable conformational isomers which can be observed. The Karplus equation relates the dihedral ... the anti-conformation (left-most, below) and the gauche conformation (right-most, below). Both conformations are free of ... The determination of stable conformations has also played a large role in the establishment of the concept of asymmetric ...
... in the Cambridge lab were attempting to determine the most stable helical conformation of amino acid chains in proteins (the ... At that time, proteins were thought to be the only kind of enzyme, and ribozymes had not yet been identified. Many molecular ... It was clear that some macromolecule such as a protein was likely to be the genetic molecule. However, it was well known that ... At any rate he was preoccupied with proteins at the time, not DNA. Watson and Crick were not officially working on DNA. Crick ...
Finally other proteins appear not to adopt any stable conformation and are referred to as intrinsically disordered. Proteins ... proteins Membrane protein Integral membrane protein Peripheral membrane protein Extracellular matrix proteins Blood protein ... Nuclear proteins Cytosolic proteins Cytoskeletal proteins Endoplasmic reticulum resident protein Mitochondrial DNA that encode ... and mixed alpha helix/beta sheet proteins. While most proteins adopt a single stable fold, a few proteins can rapidly ...
... fast protein liquid chromatography), and proved its stable conformation via circular dichroism and improved thermal stability ... larger protein, or more PEGylated protein elutes first, and smaller protein, or intact protein the latest. The most common ... As the increased degree of PEGylation decreases the ion strength of the protein, the poly-PEGylated proteins tend to bind to ... Thus, the poly-PEGylated proteins elute faster and the intact protein eludes last in the cation exchange chromatography. As ...
At this point, the DnaK•ADP complex is in a stable conformation and requires GrpE to bind DnaK, change its conformation, and ... a heat shock protein important in de novo protein folding. DnaK, in its open conformation, binds ATP with low affinity and has ... Once DnaJ, a co-chaperone, brings an unfolded protein to DnaK ATP is hydrolyzed to ADP to facilitate folding of the protein. ... GrpE (Gro-P like protein E) is a bacterial nucleotide exchange factor that is important for regulation of protein folding ...
However, there is evidence that proteins are never truly random coils, even when denatured (Shortle & Ackerman). Protein ... So, if each conformation has an equal probability or statistical weight, chains are much more likely to be ball-like than they ... Furthermore, there are signals in multidimensional NMR experiments that indicate that stable, non-local amino acid interactions ... The conformation's name is derived from the idea that, in the absence of specific, stabilizing interactions, a polymer backbone ...
The kinase domain is in an active conformation, with a fully ordered and correctly positioned aC helix, and catalytic residues ... that the kinase domain alone is insufficient for dimerisation in vivo and that the coiled-coil domains are required for stable ... Myotonin-protein kinase (MT-PK) also known as myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (MDPK) or dystrophia myotonica protein kinase ( ... For example, myotonic dystrophy protein kinase has been shown to turn off (inhibit) part of a muscle protein called myosin ...
... a method that allows any protein to be made more stable while still holding a chosen conformation of interest.[failed ... This paper was important for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that it showed that membrane proteins had well ... His interest in membrane proteins led to him working on voltage-gated sodium channels as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale ... This model was the second ever atomic model of a membrane protein. The techniques Henderson developed for electron ...
... and the protein must, therefore, fold through a series of meta-stable intermediate states. The configuration space of a protein ... provide powerful means for determining protein conformations in solution even for very large protein molecules. Such VCD ... It has been estimated that around 0.5-4% of PDB (Protein Data Bank) proteins switch folds. A protein is considered to be ... which of course requires that their full complement of vital proteins and protein assemblies be stable at that temperature or ...
... is generally used to refer to the complete biological molecule in a stable conformation, whereas peptide is generally ... This may use either whole proteins or protein domains, especially in multi-domain proteins. Protein domains allow protein ... fibrous proteins, and membrane proteins. Almost all globular proteins are soluble and many are enzymes. Fibrous proteins are ... Proteins can also work together to achieve a particular function, and they often associate to form stable protein complexes. ...