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Role of water in protein folding, oligomerization, amyloidosis and miniprotein

Vajda, Tamás and Perczel, András (2014) Role of water in protein folding, oligomerization, amyloidosis and miniprotein. JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE, 20 (10). pp. 747-759. ISSN 1075-2617

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Abstract

The essential involvement of water in most fundamental extra-cellular and intracellular processes of proteins is critically reviewed and evaluated in this article. The role of water in protein behavior displays structural ambivalence; it can protect the disordered peptide-chain by hydration or helps the globular chain-folding, but promotes also the protein aggregation, as well (see: diseases). A variety of amyloid diseases begins as benign protein monomers but develops then into toxic amyloid aggregates of fibrils. Our incomplete knowledge of this process emphasizes the essential need to reveal the principles of governing this oligomerization. To understand the biophysical basis of the simpler in vitro amyloid formation may help to decipher also the in vivo way. Nevertheless, to ignore the central role of the water's effect among these events means to receive an uncompleted picture of the true phenomenon. Therefore this review represents a stopgap role, because the most published studies—with a few exceptions—have been neglected the crucial importance of water in the protein research. The following questions are discussed from the water's viewpoint: (i) interactions between water and proteins, (ii) protein hydration/dehydration, (iii) folding of proteins and miniproteins, (iv) peptide/protein oligomerization, and (v) amyloidosis.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia
Depositing User: Dóra K. Menyhárd
Date Deposited: 14 Feb 2015 10:06
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2015 00:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/21789

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