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Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biological Systems Modelling

 


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Prof. Joanna Sułkowska
e-mail: j.sulkowska@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43675
room: 04.43
ORCID: 0000-0003-2452-0724
SCOPUS ID: 9242724100

 

Scientific interests:

  • development of multi dimensional models for the analysis of energy landscape of proteins with complex structures, as proteins with non trivial topology;
  • development of analytical methods as direct coupling analysis (DCA) and bioinformatics tools for analysis of amino acids evolution and their application to prediction of protein structures (including membrane proteins) and alternative protein folding mechanism;
  • development of the methods to analysis of mechanical properties of proteins, mechanical degradation and translation across membranes;
  • development and application of mathematical knot theory to determine the topology of open chain and its application to proteins and nucleic acids.

Co-organization of scientific events:

  • 17-21.09.214, Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids, Warsaw, Poland
  • 17-20.06.2014, 4th Visegrad Symposium on Structural Systems Biology, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
  • 17-22.11.2013, Entanglement in biology; how nature controls the topology of proteins and DNA (13w5133), Banff, Canada

Other grants:

  • DUNE, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, place of implementation: Polish Biophysical Society
  • Biophysical Society Grant, place of implementation: Faculty of Chemistry UW
  • Homing Plus, Fundation for Polish Science, place of implementation: Faculty of Chemistry UW
  • Preludium, National Science Centre, place of implementation: Faculty of Chemistry UW

Leader

Joanna Sułkowska – CV

Team

Leader
Prof. Joanna Sułkowska

Lab manager
Michał Tyras, MSc

Postdocs
Fernando Bruno da Silva, PhD
Anna Kluza, PhD
Mariusz Możajew, PhD
Szymon Niewieczerzał, PhD

Programists
Agata Perlińska
Paweł Rubach, PhD

Students
Iwona Lewandowska
Maciej Sikora
Mai Lan Nguyen
Mateusz Fortunka
Jacek Płonka
Julia Sosińska
Dominika Krasoń
Magdalena Osełka
Julia Sikorska
Julia Kamysz

Selected projects

Title Leader Years Funding
Classification of entangled proteins with intra-chain bonds and influence of entanglement on misfolding J. Sułkowska 2023-2027 NCN OPUS
Biological code of knots – identification of knotted patterns in biomolecules via AI approach J. Sułkowska 2022-2025 NCN OPUS
Doubly knotted proteins – frontiers of topological complexity of proteins J. Sułkowska 2019-2024 NCN OPUS
Seeking for CB1 and CB2 receptor ligands among drugs, drug metabolites, and phytochemical compounds A. Stasiulewicz 2020-2022 NCN PRELUDIUM
Mysteries of entanglement – proteing, life and physics J. Sułkowska 2016-2021 MNiSW IDEAS PLUS
SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease: inhibition of a viral processing and deubiquitinating enzyme – comprehensive in silico approach J. Sułkowska 2020-2021 NCN Szybka ścieżka Covid-19
Development and application of interacting molecules prediction methods based on sequence coevolution A. Jarmolińska 2019-2021 NCN PRELUDIUM
Mechanism of functioning of knotted proteins A. Perlińska 2019-2021 NCN PRELUDIUM
Influence of knotted structure on function of proteins and protein structure prediction J. Sułkowska 2013-2020 NCN SONATA BIS 2
4rd Summer School in Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology J. Sułkowska 2016 Visegrad Fund, Small Grant Program
Selected publications

  • Bruno da Silva F., Gabrovšek B., Korpacz M., Luczkiewicz K., Niewieczerzal S., Sikora M., Sulkowska J.I.
    Knots and θ-Curves Identification in Polymeric Chains and Native Proteins Using Neural Networks
    (2024) Macromolecules, 57 (9), pp. 4599 – 4608
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02479
  • Gren B.A., Antczak M., Zok T., Sulkowska J.I., Szachniuk M.
    Knotted artifacts in predicted 3D RNA structures
    (2024) PLoS Computational Biology, 20 (6 JUNE), art. no. e1011959
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011959
  • Dabrowski-Tumanski P., Goundaroulis D., Stasiak A., Rawdon E.J., Sulkowska J.I.
    Theta-curves in proteins
    (2024) Protein Science, 33 (9), art. no. e5133
    DOI: 10.1002/pro.5133
  • Rubach P., Sikora M., Jarmolinska A.I., Perlinska A.P., Sulkowska J.I.
    AlphaKnot 2.0: A web server for the visualization of proteins’ knotting and a database of knotted AlphaFold-predicted models
    (2024) Nucleic Acids Research, 52 (W1), pp. W187 – W193
    DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae443
  • Tubiana L., Alexander G.P., Barbensi A., Buck D., Cartwright J.H.E., Chwastyk M., Cieplak M., Coluzza I., Čopar S., Craik D.J., Di Stefano M., Everaers R., Faísca P.F.N., Ferrari F., Giacometti A., Goundaroulis D., Haglund E., Hou Y.-M., Ilieva N., Jackson S.E., Japaridze A., Kaplan N., Klotz A.R., Li H., Likos C.N., Locatelli E., López-León T., Machon T., Micheletti C., Michieletto D., Niemi A., Niemyska W., Niewieczerzal S., Nitti F., Orlandini E., Pasquali S., Perlinska A.P., Podgornik R., Potestio R., Pugno N.M., Ravnik M., Ricca R., Rohwer C.M., Rosa A., Smrek J., Souslov A., Stasiak A., Steer D., Sułkowska J., Sułkowski P., Sumners D.W.L., Svaneborg C., Szymczak P., Tarenzi T., Travasso R., Virnau P., Vlassopoulos D., Ziherl P., Žumer S.
    Topology in soft and biological matter
    (2024) Physics Reports, 1075, pp. 1 – 137
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2024.04.002
  • Sikora M., Klimentova E., Uchal D., Sramkova D., Perlinska A.P., Nguyen M.L., Korpacz M., Malinowska R., Nowakowski S., Rubach P., Simecek P., Sulkowska J.I.
    Knot or not? Identifying unknotted proteins in knotted families with sequence-based Machine Learning model
    (2024) Protein Science, 33 (7), art. no. e4998
    DOI: 10.1002/pro.4998
  • Perlinska A.P., Sikora M., Sulkowska J.I.
    Everything AlphaFold tells us about protein knots
    (2024) Journal of Molecular Biology, 436 (19), art. no. 168715
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168715
  • Niemyska W., Mukherjee S., Gren B.A., Niewieczerzal S., Bujnicki J.M., Sulkowska J.I.
    Discovery of a trefoil knot in the RydC RNA: Challenging previous notions of RNA topology
    (2024) Journal of Molecular Biology, 436 (6), art. no. 168455
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168455
  • Zayats V., Sikora M., Perlinska A.P., Stasiulewicz A., Gren B.A., Sulkowska J.I.
    Conservation of knotted and slipknotted topology in transmembrane transporters
    (2023) Biophysical Journal, 122 (23), pp. 4528 – 4541
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.10.031
  • Perlinska A.P., Nguyen M.L., Pilla S.P., Staszor E., Lewandowska I., Bernat A., Purta E., Augustyniak R., Bujnicki J.M., Sulkowska J.I.
    Are there double knots in proteins? Prediction and in vitro verification based on TrmD-Tm1570 fusion from C. nitroreducens
    (2023) Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 10, art. no. 1223830
    DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1223830

Contact

Prof. Joanna Sułkowska
e-mail: j.sulkowska@cent.uw.edu.pl
phone: +48 22 55 43675
room: 04.43