Protein Folding and Metal Ions
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"Interest in the uses and applications of metallo-chemistry in the life sciences continues to expand. This book provides a broad overview of metals and protein folding. It addresses fundamental aspects of the folding, stability, and design of metal binding proteins and peptides along with biological aspects related to the action of metallochaperones. The text features practical information related to methodologies, particular techniques, and bibliographic references. Readers will gain the molecular basis for protein-metal interactions and a good perspective on the applications of protein…mehr

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"Interest in the uses and applications of metallo-chemistry in the life sciences continues to expand. This book provides a broad overview of metals and protein folding. It addresses fundamental aspects of the folding, stability, and design of metal binding proteins and peptides along with biological aspects related to the action of metallochaperones. The text features practical information related to methodologies, particular techniques, and bibliographic references. Readers will gain the molecular basis for protein-metal interactions and a good perspective on the applications of protein coordination chemistry in life sciences and biotechnology"--Provided by publisher.
Discussing the role of metal ions in protein folding, this volume provides case examples of protein folding and stability studies in particular systems as well as proteins that comprise different metal ions or cofactors. It reviews those proteins that shuttle metal ions within the cell to a particular target metalloprotein and illustrates how metal binding can be linked to pathological protein conformations in unrelated diseases. The final section addresses the redesign of metal-containing proteins by computational methods, folding simulation studies, and work on model peptides.
Autorenporträt
Cláudio M. Gomes is group leader at the Instituto Tecnologia Química e Biológica, a research institute affiliated with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal. Born in 1970, Cláudio earned his PhD from the Instituto Tecnologia Química e Biológica in 1999, as a Gulbenkian PhD program in biology and medicine graduate. From 2000 onward, he gradually switched his research interests from bioenergetics and metalloprotein structure-function toward protein folding and structural biophysics of misfolding diseases. Until setting up his independent laboratory in 2003, he was assistant professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he started teaching in 2000. Cláudio has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has been a professor in biological chemistry in the Chemistry Department at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden since 2008. Born in 1968, she earned a PhD in physical chemistry from Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1996. During 1997-1998, she did a postdoctoral period at Caltech, Pasadena, California. In 1999 she began her independent research career, with a focus on the role of metals in protein folding, as a chemistry professor at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. After 5 years at Tulane, she moved to Rice University, Houston, Texas in 2004 and became a professor in biochemistry. Pernilla has graduated 10 PhD students to date, has obtained several awards, and has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers.