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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Molten Globule State of a Globular Protein in a Cell Is More or Less Frequent Case Rather than an Exception.

Valentina E Bychkova, Dmitry A Dolgikh, Vitalii A Balobanov, Alexei V Finkelstein

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Nature of Non-Arrhenius Kinetics in the Heat Denaturation of Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  3. A molten globule ensemble primes Arf1-GDP for the nucleotide switch.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Valentina E BychkovaInstitute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
Dmitry A DolgikhShemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117871 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-9880-7202
Vitalii A BalobanovInstitute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
Alexei V FinkelsteinInstitute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-2138-4803
Institute of Protein Research · RUInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry · RU

Funding

Russian Foundation for Basic Research № 21-14-00268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quite a long time ago, Oleg B. Ptitsyn put forward a hypothesis about the possible functional significance of the molten globule (MG) state for the functioning of proteins. MG is an intermediate between the unfolded and the native state of a protein. Its experimental detection and investigation in a cell are extremely difficult. In the last decades, intensive studies have demonstrated that the MG-like state of some globular proteins arises from either their modifications or interactions with protein partners or other cell components. This review summarizes such reports. In many cases, MG was evidenced to be functionally important. Thus, the MG state is quite common for functional cellular proteins. This supports Ptitsyn's hypothesis that some globular proteins may switch between two active states, rigid (N) and soft (MG), to work in solution or interact with partners.

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Protein FoldingProteinsCircular DichroismProtein ConformationProtein DenaturationProteinschaperonecoilfunctional stateglobular proteinintrinsically disorderedmembranemolten globulepost-translational modificationsrigid native stateunfolded state

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PMID35889244
PMCPMC9319461
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