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Dhillon AK, Sharma A, Yadav V, Singh R, Ahuja T, Barman S, Siddhanta S. Raman spectroscopy and its plasmon-enhanced counterparts: A toolbox to probe protein dynamics and aggregation. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS. NANOMEDICINE AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 16:e1917. [PMID: 37518952 DOI: 10.1002/wnan.1917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Protein unfolding and aggregation are often correlated with numerous diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and other debilitating neurological disorders. Such adverse events consist of a plethora of competing mechanisms, particularly interactions that control the stability and cooperativity of the process. However, it remains challenging to probe the molecular mechanism of protein dynamics such as aggregation, and monitor them in real-time under physiological conditions. Recently, Raman spectroscopy and its plasmon-enhanced counterparts, such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), have emerged as sensitive analytical tools that have the potential to perform molecular studies of functional groups and are showing significant promise in probing events related to protein aggregation. We summarize the fundamental working principles of Raman, SERS, and TERS as nondestructive, easy-to-perform, and fast tools for probing protein dynamics and aggregation. Finally, we highlight the utility of these techniques for the analysis of vibrational spectra of aggregation of proteins from various sources such as tissues, pathogens, food, biopharmaceuticals, and lastly, biological fouling to retrieve precise chemical information, which can be potentially translated to practical applications and point-of-care (PoC) devices. This article is categorized under: Therapeutic Approaches and Drug Discovery > Emerging Technologies Diagnostic Tools > Diagnostic Nanodevices Nanotechnology Approaches to Biology > Nanoscale Systems in Biology.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Center for Advanced Materials and Devices (CAMD), BML Munjal University, Haryana, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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Kamal H, Ali A, Manickam S, Le CF. Impact of cavitation on the structure and functional quality of extracted protein from food sources - An overview. Food Chem 2023; 407:135071. [PMID: 36493478 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.135071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Increasing protein demands directly require additional resources to those presently and recurrently available. Emerging green technologies have witnessed an escalating interest in "Cavitation Processing" (CP) to ensure a non-invasive, non-ionizing and non-polluting extraction. The main intent of this review is to present an integrated summary of cavitation extraction methods specifically applied to food protein sources. Along with a comparative assessment carried out for each type of cavitation model, protein extraction yield and implications on the extracted protein's structural and functional properties. The basic principle of cavitation is due to the pressure shift in the liquid flow within milliseconds. Hence, cavitation emerges similar to boiling; however, unlike boiling (temperature change), cavitation occurs due to pressure change. Characterization and classification of sample type is also a prime candidate when considering the applications of cavitation models in food processing. Generally, acoustic and hydrodynamic cavitation is applied in food applications including extraction, brewing, microbial cell disruption, dairy processing, emulsification, fermentation, waste processing, crystallisation, mass transfer and production of bioactive peptides. Micro structural studies indicate that shear stress causes disintegration of hydrogen bonds and Van der Waals interactions result in the unfolding of the protein's secondary and/or tertiary structures. A change in the structure is not targeted but rather holistic and affects the physicochemical, functional, and nutritional properties. Cavitation assisted extraction of protein is typically studied at a laboratory scale. This highlights limitations against the application at an industrial scale to obtain potential commercial gains.
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- Hina Kamal
- Centre of Excellence for Postharvest Biotechnology (CEPB), School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan 43500, Malaysia; Future Food Beacon of Excellence, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough LE 12 5RD, United Kingdom
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- Centre of Excellence for Postharvest Biotechnology (CEPB), School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan 43500, Malaysia; Future Food Beacon of Excellence, Faculty of Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough LE 12 5RD, United Kingdom; The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6001, Australia; Leaders Institute, 76 Park Road, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia.
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- Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Technology Brunei, Jalan Tungku Link Gadong BE1410, Brunei Darussalam
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- Centre of Excellence for Postharvest Biotechnology (CEPB), School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Jalan Broga, Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan 43500, Malaysia
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Franke L, Peter C. Visualizing the Residue Interaction Landscape of Proteins by Temporal Network Embedding. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:2985-2995. [PMID: 37122117 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Characterizing the structural dynamics of proteins with heterogeneous conformational landscapes is crucial to understanding complex biomolecular processes. To this end, dimensionality reduction algorithms are used to produce low-dimensional embeddings of the high-dimensional conformational phase space. However, identifying a compact and informative set of input features for the embedding remains an ongoing challenge. Here, we propose to harness the power of Residue Interaction Networks (RINs) and their centrality measures, established tools to provide a graph theoretical view on molecular structure. Specifically, we combine the closeness centrality, which captures global features of the protein conformation at residue-wise resolution, with EncoderMap, a hybrid neural-network autoencoder/multidimensional-scaling like dimensionality reduction algorithm. We find that the resulting low-dimensional embedding is a meaningful visualization of the residue interaction landscape that resolves structural details of the protein behavior while retaining global interpretability. This feature-based graph embedding of temporal protein graphs makes it possible to apply the general descriptive power of RIN formalisms to the analysis of protein simulations of complex processes such as protein folding and multidomain interactions requiring no protein-specific input. We demonstrate this on simulations of the fast folding protein Trp-Cage and the multidomain signaling protein FAT10. Due to its generality and modularity, the presented approach can easily be transferred to other protein systems.
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- Leon Franke
- Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78457, Germany
- Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78457, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78457, Germany
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Kondra S, Sarkar T, Raghavan V, Xu W. Development of a TSR-Based Method for Protein 3-D Structural Comparison With Its Applications to Protein Classification and Motif Discovery. Front Chem 2021; 8:602291. [PMID: 33520934 PMCID: PMC7838567 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.602291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Development of protein 3-D structural comparison methods is important in understanding protein functions. At the same time, developing such a method is very challenging. In the last 40 years, ever since the development of the first automated structural method, ~200 papers were published using different representations of structures. The existing methods can be divided into five categories: sequence-, distance-, secondary structure-, geometry-based, and network-based structural comparisons. Each has its uniqueness, but also limitations. We have developed a novel method where the 3-D structure of a protein is modeled using the concept of Triangular Spatial Relationship (TSR), where triangles are constructed with the Cα atoms of a protein as vertices. Every triangle is represented using an integer, which we denote as “key,” A key is computed using the length, angle, and vertex labels based on a rule-based formula, which ensures assignment of the same key to identical TSRs across proteins. A structure is thereby represented by a vector of integers. Our method is able to accurately quantify similarity of structure or substructure by matching numbers of identical keys between two proteins. The uniqueness of our method includes: (i) a unique way to represent structures to avoid performing structural superimposition; (ii) use of triangles to represent substructures as it is the simplest primitive to capture shape; (iii) complex structure comparison is achieved by matching integers corresponding to multiple TSRs. Every substructure of one protein is compared to every other substructure in a different protein. The method is used in the studies of proteases and kinases because they play essential roles in cell signaling, and a majority of these constitute drug targets. The new motifs or substructures we identified specifically for proteases and kinases provide a deeper insight into their structural relations. Furthermore, the method provides a unique way to study protein conformational changes. In addition, the results from CATH and SCOP data sets clearly demonstrate that our method can distinguish alpha helices from beta pleated sheets and vice versa. Our method has the potential to be developed into a powerful tool for efficient structure-BLAST search and comparison, just as BLAST is for sequence search and alignment.
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- Sarika Kondra
- The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
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- The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
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- The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States
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