{"title":"Protein Sequencing, One Molecule at a Time.","authors":"Brendan M Floyd, Edward M Marcotte","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-102121-103615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-102121-103615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite tremendous gains over the past decade, methods for characterizing proteins have generally lagged behind those for nucleic acids, which are characterized by extremely high sensitivity, dynamic range, and throughput. However, the ability to directly characterize proteins at nucleic acid levels would address critical biological challenges such as more sensitive medical diagnostics, deeper protein quantification, large-scale measurement, and discovery of alternate protein isoforms and modifications and would open new paths to single-cell proteomics. In response to this need, there has been a push to radically improve protein sequencing technologies by taking inspiration from high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing, with a particular focus on developing practical methods for single-molecule protein sequencing (SMPS). SMPS technologies fall generally into three categories: sequencing by degradation (e.g., mass spectrometry or fluorosequencing), sequencing by transit (e.g., nanopores or quantum tunneling), and sequencing by affinity (as in DNA hybridization-based approaches). We describe these diverse approaches, which range from those that are already experimentally well-supported to the merely speculative, in this nascent field striving to reformulate proteomics.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":"51 ","pages":"181-200"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9809159/pdf/nihms-1856919.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10471656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phospholipid Scrambling by G Protein-Coupled Receptors.","authors":"George Khelashvili, Anant K Menon","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-090821-083030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-090821-083030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rapid flip-flop of phospholipids across the two leaflets of biological membranes is crucial for many aspects of cellular life. The transport proteins that facilitate this process are classified as pump-like flippases and floppases and channel-like scramblases. Unexpectedly, Class A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large class of signaling proteins exemplified by the visual receptor rhodopsin and its apoprotein opsin, are constitutively active as scramblases in vitro. In liposomes, opsin scrambles lipids at a unitary rate of >100,000 per second. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of opsin in a lipid membrane reveal conformational transitions that expose a polar groove between transmembrane helices 6 and 7. This groove enables transbilayer lipid movement, conceptualized as the swiping of a credit card (lipid) through a card reader (GPCR). Conformational changes that facilitate scrambling are distinct from those associated with GPCR signaling. In this review, we discuss the physiological significance of GPCR scramblase activity and the modes of its regulation in cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":"51 ","pages":"39-61"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521775/pdf/nihms-1837184.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9433752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neurotransmitter Release.","authors":"Josep Rizo","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-111821-104732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-111821-104732","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Major recent advances and previous data have led to a plausible model of how key proteins mediate neurotransmitter release. In this model, the soluble <i>N</i>-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor (NSF) attachment protein (SNAP) receptor (SNARE) proteins syntaxin-1, SNAP-25, and synaptobrevin form tight complexes that bring the membranes together and are crucial for membrane fusion. NSF and SNAPs disassemble SNARE complexes and ensure that fusion occurs through an exquisitely regulated pathway that starts with Munc18-1 bound to a closed conformation of syntaxin-1. Munc18-1 also binds to synaptobrevin, forming a template to assemble the SNARE complex when Munc13-1 opens syntaxin-1 while bridging the vesicle and plasma membranes. Synaptotagmin-1 and complexin bind to partially assembled SNARE complexes, likely stabilizing them and preventing fusion until Ca<sup>2+</sup> binding to synaptotagmin-1 causes dissociation from the SNARE complex and induces interactions with phospholipids that help trigger release. Although fundamental questions remain about the mechanism of membrane fusion, these advances provide a framework to investigate the mechanisms underlying presynaptic plasticity.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":"51 ","pages":"377-408"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9490555/pdf/nihms-1835467.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9435069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-111521-102500
Stefano Di Talia, Massimo Vergassola
{"title":"Waves in Embryonic Development.","authors":"Stefano Di Talia, Massimo Vergassola","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-111521-102500","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-111521-102500","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embryonic development hinges on effective coordination of molecular events across space and time. Waves have recently emerged as constituting an ubiquitous mechanism that ensures rapid spreading of regulatory signals across embryos, as well as reliable control of their patterning, namely, for the emergence of body plan structures. In this article, we review a selection of recent quantitative work on signaling waves and present an overview of the theory of waves. Our aim is to provide a succinct yet comprehensive guiding reference for the theoretical frameworks by which signaling waves can arise in embryos. We start, then, from reaction-diffusion systems, both static and time dependent; move to excitable dynamics; and conclude with systems of coupled oscillators. We link these theoretical models to molecular mechanisms recently elucidated for the control of mitotic waves in early embryos, patterning of the vertebrate body axis, micropattern cultures, and bone regeneration. Our goal is to inspire experimental work that will advance theory in development and connect its predictions to quantitative biological observations.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":"51 ","pages":"327-353"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10122827/pdf/nihms-1890571.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9396868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Temperature on Cellular Physiology.","authors":"Benjamin D. Knapp, K. C. Huang","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-112221-074832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-112221-074832","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature impacts biological systems across all length and timescales. Cells and the enzymes that comprise them respond to temperature fluctuations on short timescales, and temperature can affect protein folding, the molecular composition of cells, and volume expansion. Entire ecosystems exhibit temperature-dependent behaviors, and global warming threatens to disrupt thermal homeostasis in microbes that are important for human and planetary health. Intriguingly, the growth rate of most species follows the Arrhenius law of equilibrium thermodynamics, with an activation energy similar to that of individual enzymes but with maximal growth rates and over temperature ranges that are species specific. In this review, we discuss how the temperature dependence of critical cellular processes, such as the central dogma and membrane fluidity, contributes to the temperature dependence of growth. We conclude with a discussion of adaptation to temperature shifts and the effects of temperature on evolution and on the properties of microbial ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":"51 1","pages":"499-526"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44076641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2022-02-04DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-102521-112912
Sheng Liu, Philipp Hoess, Jonas Ries
{"title":"Super-Resolution Microscopy for Structural Cell Biology.","authors":"Sheng Liu, Philipp Hoess, Jonas Ries","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-102521-112912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-102521-112912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Super-resolution microscopy techniques, and specifically single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), are approaching nanometer resolution inside cells and thus have great potential to complement structural biology techniques such as electron microscopy for structural cell biology. In this review, we introduce the different flavors of super-resolution microscopy, with a special emphasis on SMLM and MINFLUX (minimal photon flux). We summarize recent technical developments that pushed these localization-based techniques to structural scales and review the experimental conditions that are key to obtaining data of the highest quality. Furthermore, we give an overview of different analysis methods and highlight studies that used SMLM to gain structural insights into biologically relevant molecular machines. Ultimately, we give our perspective on what is needed to push the resolution of these techniques even further and to apply them to investigating dynamic structural rearrangements in living cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":"301-326"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39889061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-090921-120150
Theodoros K Karamanos, G Marius Clore
{"title":"Large Chaperone Complexes Through the Lens of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.","authors":"Theodoros K Karamanos, G Marius Clore","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-090921-120150","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-090921-120150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Molecular chaperones are the guardians of the proteome inside the cell. Chaperones recognize and bind unfolded or misfolded substrates, thereby preventing further aggregation; promoting correct protein folding; and, in some instances, even disaggregating already formed aggregates. Chaperones perform their function by means of an array of weak protein-protein interactions that take place over a wide range of timescales and are therefore invisible to structural techniques dependent upon the availability of highly homogeneous samples. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, however, is ideally suited to study dynamic, rapidly interconverting conformational states and protein-protein interactions in solution, even if these involve a high-molecular-weight component. In this review, we give a brief overview of the principles used by chaperones to bind their client proteins and describe NMR methods that have emerged as valuable tools to probe chaperone-substrate and chaperone-chaperone interactions. We then focus on a few systems for which the application of these methods has greatly increased our understanding of the mechanisms underlying chaperone functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":"223-246"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9358445/pdf/nihms-1826902.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39832390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-090721-072718
Taras Sych, Kandice R Levental, Erdinc Sezgin
{"title":"Lipid-Protein Interactions in Plasma Membrane Organization and Function.","authors":"Taras Sych, Kandice R Levental, Erdinc Sezgin","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-090721-072718","DOIUrl":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-090721-072718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lipid-protein interactions in cells are involved in various biological processes, including metabolism, trafficking, signaling, host-pathogen interactions, and transmembrane transport. At the plasma membrane, lipid-protein interactions play major roles in membrane organization and function. Several membrane proteins have motifs for specific lipid binding, which modulate protein conformation and consequent function. In addition to such specific lipid-protein interactions, protein function can be regulated by the dynamic, collective behavior of lipids in membranes. Emerging analytical, biochemical, and computational technologies allow us to study the influence of specific lipid-protein interactions, as well as the collective behavior of membranes on protein function. In this article, we review the recent literature on lipid-protein interactions with a specific focus on the current state-of-the-art technologies that enable novel insights into these interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":"135-156"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12101515/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39660843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-082521-113418
Amnon Horovitz, Tali Haviv Reingewertz, Jorge Cuéllar, José María Valpuesta
{"title":"Chaperonin Mechanisms: Multiple and (Mis)Understood?","authors":"Amnon Horovitz, Tali Haviv Reingewertz, Jorge Cuéllar, José María Valpuesta","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-082521-113418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-082521-113418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The chaperonins are ubiquitous and essential nanomachines that assist in protein folding in an ATP-driven manner. They consist of two back-to-back stacked oligomeric rings with cavities in which protein (un)folding can take place in a shielding environment. This review focuses on GroEL from <i>Escherichia coli</i> and the eukaryotic chaperonin-containing t-complex polypeptide 1, which differ considerably in their reaction mechanisms despite sharing a similar overall architecture. Although chaperonins feature in many current biochemistry textbooks after being studied intensively for more than three decades, key aspects of their reaction mechanisms remain under debate and are discussed in this review. In particular, it is unclear whether a universal reaction mechanism operates for all substrates and whether it is passive, i.e., aggregation is prevented but the folding pathway is unaltered, or active. It is also unclear how chaperonin clients are distinguished from nonclients and what are the precise roles of the cofactors with which chaperonins interact.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":"115-133"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39660844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annual Review of BiophysicsPub Date : 2022-05-09Epub Date: 2021-12-21DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-120121-074034
Bertil Hille
{"title":"A Life of Biophysics.","authors":"Bertil Hille","doi":"10.1146/annurev-biophys-120121-074034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-120121-074034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biophysics is a way of approaching biological problems through numbers, physical laws, models, and quantitative logic. In a long scientific career, I have seen the formation and fruition of the ion channel concept through biophysical study. Marvelous discoveries were made as our instruments evolved from vacuum tubes to transistors; computers evolved from the size of an entire building to a few chips inside our instruments; and genome sequencing, gene expression, and atom-level structural biology became accessible to all laboratories. Science is rewarding and exhilarating.</p>","PeriodicalId":50756,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Biophysics","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":12.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39745244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}