2025
DSP-1, the major fibronectin type-II protein of donkey seminal plasma is a small heat-shock protein and exhibits chaperone-like activity against thermal and oxidative stress
Alim S, Cheppali S, Pawar S, Swamy M. DSP-1, the major fibronectin type-II protein of donkey seminal plasma is a small heat-shock protein and exhibits chaperone-like activity against thermal and oxidative stress. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins And Proteomics 2025, 1873: 141064. PMID: 39956303, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2025.141064.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChaperone-like activitySeminal plasmaFibronectin type IITetramer to monomersSperm capacitationSurface hydrophobicityMolecular chaperonesClient proteinsHeat shock proteinsBiophysical studiesAlcohol dehydrogenaseOxidative stressPhysiological ligandsShock proteinsProteinHead group moietySHspsBinding of phosphorylcholineCholine phospholipidsBindingFibronectinDehydrogenaseChaperoneSpermMammals
2023
Contrasting effects of molecular crowding on the membrane-perturbing and chaperone-like activities of major bovine seminal plasma protein, PDC-109
Singh B, Cheppali S, Saha I, Swamy M. Contrasting effects of molecular crowding on the membrane-perturbing and chaperone-like activities of major bovine seminal plasma protein, PDC-109. International Journal Of Biological Macromolecules 2023, 254: 127573. PMID: 37923045, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127573.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChaperone-like activityPDC-109Effects of molecular crowdingMembrane destabilizationMolecular crowdingBovine seminal plasma proteinSperm cell surfaceSeminal plasma proteinsBovine seminal plasmaAcrosome reactionClient proteinsProtein stabilityMicroenvironment of proteinsSeminal plasmaMembrane-perturbingProtein oligomersReduced surface hydrophobicityOligomeric proteinsLipid effluxCell surfaceCrowding agentsProteinIsothermal titration calorimetric studiesTitration calorimetric studiesFunctional activity
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