Structural dynamics of membrane proteins

Computational Structural Dynamics of Proteins

Structural bioinformatics prediction of membrane-binding proteins.

Membrane-binding peripheral proteins play important roles in many biological processes, including cell signaling and membrane trafficking. Unlike integral membrane proteins, these proteins bind the membrane mostly in a reversible manner. Since peripheral proteins do not have canonical transmembrane segments, it is difficult to identify them from their amino acid sequences. As a first step towar...

Structural prediction of membrane-bound proteins.

A prediction algorithm based on physical characteristics of the twenty amino acids and refined by comparison to the proposed bacteriorhodopsin structure was devised to delineate likely membrane-buried regions in the primary sequences of proteins known to interact with the lipid bilayer. Application of the method to the sequence of the carboxyl terminal one-third of bovine rhodopsin predicted a ...

Molecular dynamics simulation of membrane proteins.

Membrane proteins play crucial roles in a range of biological processes. High resolution structures provide insights into the functional mechanisms of membrane proteins, but detailed biophysical characterization of membrane proteins is difficult. Complementary to experimental techniques, molecular dynamics simulations is a powerful tool in providing more complete description of the dynamics and...

Differential dynamics of membrane proteins in yeast.

Lateral diffusion of lipids and proteins in yeast plasma membranes has been reported to be anomalously slow, and implicated as a possible reason for polarization in yeast. In order to gain insight into the observed slow diffusion in yeast membranes, we explored lateral diffusion of two proteins of different origin. We compared lateral dynamics of the Candida drug resistance protein-1 (Cdr1p), a...