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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2024

Protein folding: Funnel model revised.

Irena Roterman, Mateusz Slupina, Leszek Konieczny

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Redesign of the Molecular Scaffold of Viral Ion Channel Blockers.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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  4. AlphaFold in protein structure and function prediction.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  5. Three scenarios for amyloid transformation in the context of the funnel model.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Irena RotermanDepartment of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Medyczna 7, 30-688 Kraków, Poland.
Mateusz SlupinaDepartment of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Medyczna 7, 30-688 Kraków, Poland.
Leszek KoniecznyChair of Medical Biochemistry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 7, 31-034 Kraków, Poland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatial structure of proteins, largely determined by their amino acid sequences, is also dependent on the environmental conditions under which the folding process takes place. In aqueous environments, exposure of polar amino acids is the driving factor, whereas protein stabilization in amphipathic membranes requires exposure to hydrophobic residues. This observation can be extended to all other environmental conditions under which proteins exhibit biological activity and, most importantly, to the folding process. The fuzzy oil drop (FOD) model assumes a centric location of hydrophobic residues (hydrophobic core) with exposure of polar residues towards the aqueous environment, as the influence of the aqueous environment is extended to include the contribution of other non-aqueous factors, enabling the assessment of their influence on protein structuring. The application of the modified FOD model (FOD-M) we have developed allows the environment to be represented as an external force field in the form of a continuum. The role of environmental conditions allows modification of the funnel model expressing the localization of the energy minimum as dependent on external conditions expressed by the K scale, where K measures the degree of other than polar water factors participating in folding process.

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ChaperoneChaperoninDown-hillEnzymesExternal force fieldFast-foldingFunnel modelHydrophobicityin silico analysisMembrane proteinsProtein folding

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PMCPMC11550765

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