Protein Dynamics

Ana-Nicoleta Bondar is a full professor of physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania, and currently a visiting professor at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Germany. Prior to this, she led the theoretical molecular biophysics group at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics. Dr. Bondar’s research is focused on methodological developments and applications for membrane proteins. Durba Sengupta is Principle Scientist and Assistant Professor at the Physical Chemistry DivisionCSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. The main objective of Dr Sengupta’s research group is to understand self organisation and self-assembly in complex bio-systems, using the tools of physical chemistry. The current focus of her research is membrane biology and understanding the structure, dynamics and functions of proteins, lipids, sugars and sterols within the membrane.

• 1. Introduction2. Functional protein dynamics3. Protein-protein communication in membrane protein organization and cell signaling4. Intrinsically disordered proteins5. Role of entropy in protein folding6. Functional water molecules and role of ions in protein function7. Computing transition states in enzyme reactions8. G Protein Receptor Signaling9. Protonation-coupled protein dynamics studied with graph algorithms10. Membrane transporters11. Lipids and lipid-protein dynamics in membrane protein function12. Protein misfolding and aggregation13. Proteins of extremophiles14. Protein allosteric conformational changes caused by drug binding and disease-associated mutations15. Computer-based drug design16. Amyloid precursor protein in Alzheimer’s disease