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In silico evidence that protein unfolding is as a precursor of the protein aggregation [PDF]
ChemPhysChem 2020, 21, 377, 2019 We present a computational study on the folding and aggregation of proteins in aqueous environment, as function of its concentration. We show how the increase of the concentration of individual protein species can induce a partial unfolding of the native conformation without the occurrence of aggregates. A further increment of the protein concentration
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A simple reaction-diffusion system as a possible model for the origin of chemotaxis [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Chemotaxis is a directed cell movement in response to external chemical stimuli. In this paper, we propose a simple model for the origin of chemotaxis - namely how a directed movement in response to an external chemical signal may occur based on purely reaction-diffusion equations reflecting inner working of the cells. The model is inspired by the well-
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A novel methodology on distributed representations of proteins using their interacting ligands [PDF]
Bioinformatics 2018, 2018 The effective representation of proteins is a crucial task that directly affects the performance of many bioinformatics problems. Related proteins usually bind to similar ligands. Chemical characteristics of ligands are known to capture the functional and mechanistic properties of proteins suggesting that a ligand based approach can be utilized in ...
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Prediction of repurposed drugs for treating lung injury in COVID-19 [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease discovered in 2019 and currently in outbreak across the world. Lung injury with severe respiratory failure is the leading cause of death in COVID-19, brought by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
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Dynamics of membranes driven by actin polymerization [PDF]
, 2005 A motile cell, when stimulated, shows a dramatic increase in the activity of its membrane, manifested by the appearance of dynamic membrane structures such as lamellipodia, filopodia and membrane ruffles. The external stimulus turns on membrane bound activators, like Cdc42 and PIP2, which cause increased branching and polymerization of the actin ...
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Virtual Identification of Essential Proteins Within the Protein Interaction Network of Yeast [PDF]
, 2005 Topological analysis of large scale protein-protein interaction networks (PINs) is important for understanding the organisational and functional principles of individual proteins. The number of interactions that a protein has in a PIN has been observed to be correlated with its indispensability.
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Length, Protein-Protein Interactions, and Complexity [PDF]
, 2004 The evolutionary reason for the increase in gene length from archaea to prokaryotes to eukaryotes observed in large scale genome sequencing efforts has been unclear. We propose here that the increasing complexity of protein-protein interactions has driven the selection of longer proteins, as longer proteins are more able to distinguish among a larger ...
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Optimal experimental design in an EGFR signaling and down-regulation model [PDF]
arXiv, 2006 We apply the methods of optimal experimental design to a differential equation model for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling, trafficking, and down-regulation. The model incorporates the role of a recently discovered protein complex made up of the E3 ubiquitin ligase, Cbl, the guanine exchange factor (GEF), Cool-1 (Beta-Pix), and the Rho ...
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ProNet DB: A proteome-wise database for protein surface property representations and RNA-binding profiles [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The rapid growth in the number of experimental and predicted protein structures and more complicated protein structures challenge users in computational biology for utilizing the structural information and protein surface property representation. Recently, AlphaFold2 released the comprehensive proteome of various species, and protein surface property ...
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NLRP4E regulates actin cap formation through SRC and CDC42 during oocyte meiosis
Cellular & Molecular Biology LettersBackground Members of the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain, leucine rich repeat and pyrin domain containing (NLRP) family regulate various physiological and pathological processes. However, none have been shown to regulate actin cap formation or
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