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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

How electrostatic networks modulate specificity and stability of collagen.

Hongning Zheng, Cheng Lu, Jun Lan, Shilong Fan, Vikas Nanda, Fei Xu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. De Novo Design of Specific Heterotrimeric Collagen-Like Peptides via Genetic Algorithm.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Deciphering the folding code of collagens.Nature communications · 2025
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  11. Contrasting Local and Macroscopic Effects of Collagen Hydroxylation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  14. Collagen Mimetic Peptides.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Hongning ZhengMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
Cheng LuMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
Jun LanMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China.
Shilong FanMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China; fanshilong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn nanda@cabm.rutgers.edu feixu@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Vikas NandaCenter for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854; fanshilong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn nanda@cabm.rutgers.edu feixu@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Fei XuMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China; fanshilong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn nanda@cabm.rutgers.edu feixu@jiangnan.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One-quarter of the 28 types of natural collagen exist as heterotrimers. The oligomerization state of collagen affects the structure and mechanics of the extracellular matrix, providing essential cues to modulate biological and pathological processes. A lack of high-resolution structural information limits our mechanistic understanding of collagen heterospecific self-assembly. Here, the 1.77-Å resolution structure of a synthetic heterotrimer demonstrates the balance of intermolecular electrostatics and hydrogen bonding that affects collagen stability and heterospecificity of assembly. Atomistic simulations and mutagenesis based on the solved structure are used to explore the contributions of specific interactions to energetics. A predictive model of collagen stability and specificity is developed for engineering novel collagen structures.

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CollagenHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein MultimerizationProtein StabilityStatic ElectricityTemperatureCollagencooperativitymolecular dynamicsprotein designself-assemblytriple helix

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PMID29844169
PMCPMC6004475

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