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ReviewMolecular aspects of medicine2025

Frustration in physiology and molecular medicine.

R Gonzalo Parra, Elizabeth A Komives, Peter G Wolynes, Diego U Ferreiro

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Review in Molecular aspects of medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Determinants of Protein Folding Pathways: Lessons from Metamorphic Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Adjusting Autonomic Physiology with Diet and Minerals to Improve Health.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

R Gonzalo ParraLife Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.
Elizabeth A KomivesUniversity of California, San Diego, USA.
Peter G WolynesCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Electronic address: pwolynes@rice.edu.
Diego U FerreiroProtein Physiology Lab, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina; Instituto de Química Biológica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina. Electronic address: ferreiro@qb.fcen.uba.ar.

Funding

The landscape of NFκB transcription dynamicsR01GM141182 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KOMIVES, ELIZABETH A., WOLYNES, PETER GUY · 2022 to 2025
$2.3M
Functional Dynamics of ThrombinR01HL127041 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KOMIVES, ELIZABETH A. · 2016 to 2019
$1.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL127041NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141182
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecules provide the ultimate language in terms of which physiology and pathology must be understood. Myriads of proteins participate in elaborate networks of interactions and perform chemical activities coordinating the life of cells. To perform these often amazing tasks, proteins must move and we must think of them as dynamic ensembles of three dimensional structures formed first by folding the polypeptide chains so as to minimize the conflicts between the interactions of their constituent amino acids. It is apparent however that, even when completely folded, not all conflicting interactions have been resolved so the structure remains 'locally frustrated'. Over the last decades it has become clearer that this local frustration is not just a random accident but plays an essential part of the inner workings of protein molecules. We will review here the physical origins of the frustration concept and review evidence that local frustration is important for protein physiology, protein-protein recognition, catalysis and allostery. Also, we highlight examples showing how alterations in the local frustration patterns can be linked to distinct pathologies. Finally we explore the extensions of the impact of frustration in higher order levels of organization of systems including gene regulatory networks and the neural networks of the brain.

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Molecular MedicineProteinsAnimalsGene Regulatory NetworksHumansProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProteins

Identifiers

PMID40273505
PMCPMC12128678

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