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ArticleScientific reports2015

Effects of N-glycosylation on protein conformation and dynamics: Protein Data Bank analysis and molecular dynamics simulation study.

Hui Sun Lee, Yifei Qi, Wonpil Im

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 142 papers.

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142citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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142 citing papers in PubMed, 285 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hui Sun LeeDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Computational Biology, The University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States.
Yifei QiDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Computational Biology, The University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States.
Wonpil ImDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Computational Biology, The University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States.
University of Kansas · US

Funding

Synthetic Antigen Binder CoreU54GM087519 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROUX, BENOIT · 2010 to 2017
$31.9M
TrainingP41GM103712 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FAEDER, JAMES · 2012 to 2021
$16.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103712NIGMS NIH HHS P41GM103712-S1NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM087519NIGMS NIH HHS U54GM087519
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

N-linked glycosylation is one of the most important, chemically complex, and ubiquitous post-translational modifications in all eukaryotes. The N-glycans that are covalently linked to proteins are involved in numerous biological processes. There is considerable interest in developments of general approaches to predict the structural consequences of site-specific glycosylation and to understand how these effects can be exploited in protein design with advantageous properties. In this study, the impacts of N-glycans on protein structure and dynamics are systematically investigated using an integrated computational approach of the Protein Data Bank structure analysis and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of glycosylated and deglycosylated proteins. Our study reveals that N-glycosylation does not induce significant changes in protein structure, but decreases protein dynamics, likely leading to an increase in protein stability. Overall, these results suggest not only a common role of glycosylation in proteins, but also a need for certain proteins to be properly glycosylated to gain their intrinsic dynamic properties.

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Databases, ProteinMolecular Dynamics SimulationBinding SitesGlycosylationModels, ChemicalPolysaccharidesProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein Interaction MappingProteinsSequence Analysis, ProteinPolysaccharidesProteins

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PMID25748215
PMCPMC4352867
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