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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2022

Computational Insights of Unfolding of N-Terminal Domain of TDP-43 Reveal the Conformational Heterogeneity in the Unfolding Pathway.

Ruiting Li, Ruhar Singh, Tara Kashav, ChunMin Yang, Ravi Datta Sharma, Andrew M Lynn, Rajendra Prasad, Amresh Prakash, Vijay Kumar

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ruiting LiSchool of Engineering, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangzhou, China.
Ruhar SinghSchool of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Tara KashavDepartment of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, India.
ChunMin YangSchool of Engineering, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangzhou, China.
Ravi Datta SharmaAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India.
Andrew M LynnSchool of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Rajendra PrasadAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India.
Amresh PrakashAmity Institute of Integrative Sciences and Health (AIISH), Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India.
Vijay KumarAmity Institute of Neuropsychology & Neurosciences (AINN), Amity University, Noida, India.
Guangzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology · CNJawaharlal Nehru University · INAmity University · INCentral University of South Bihar · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TDP-43 proteinopathies is a disease hallmark that characterizes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The N-terminal domain of TDP-43 (NTD) is important to both TDP-43 physiology and TDP-43 proteinopathy. However, its folding and dimerization process is still poorly characterized. In the present study, we have investigated the folding/unfolding of NTD employing all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in 8 M dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) at high temperatures. The MD results showed that the unfolding of the NTD at high temperature evolves through the formation of a number of conformational states differing in their stability and free energy. The presence of structurally heterogeneous population of intermediate ensembles was further characterized by the different extents of solvent exposure of Trp80 during unfolding. We suggest that these non-natives unfolded intermediate ensembles may facilitate NTD oligomerization and subsequently TDP-43 oligomerization, which might lead to the formation of irreversible pathological aggregates, characteristics of disease pathogenesis.

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