DeMaSk: a deep mutational scanning substitution matrix and its use for variant impact prediction

D Munro, M Singh - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Accurately predicting the quantitative impact of a substitution on a protein's
molecular function would be a great aid in understanding the effects of observed genetic …

Stepwise introduction of stabilizing mutations reveals nonlinear additive effects in de novo TIM barrels

JS Koch, S Romero‐Romero, B Höcker - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the TIM‐barrel fold has served as a model system for the exploration
of how changes in protein sequences affect their structural, stability, and functional …

Identification of biochemically neutral positions in liver pyruvate kinase

TA Martin, T Wu, Q Tang, LL Dougherty… - Proteins: Structure …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how each residue position contributes to protein function has been a long‐
standing goal in protein science. Substitution studies have historically focused on conserved …

Understanding epistatic networks in the B1 ꞵ-lactamases through coevolutionary statistical modeling and deep mutational scanning

JZ Chen, M Bisardi, D Lee, S Cotogno, F Zamponi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Over the course of evolution, proteins families undergo sequence diversification via mutation
accumulation, with extant homologs often sharing less than 25% sequence identity. The …

Shifts in amino acid preferences as proteins evolve: a synthesis of experimental and theoretical work

N Youssef, E Susko, AJ Roger, JP Bielawski - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Amino acid preferences vary across sites and time. While variation across sites is widely
accepted, the extent and frequency of temporal shifts are contentious. Our understanding of …

Large language models for biological prediction and design

AW Kollasch - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Predicting the functional impact of changes to biological sequences is a central challenge in
genetics and biology. Beyond genetics, sequence-to-function mapping has key applications …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting single-point mutational effect on protein stability

SKS Chu, J Siegel - Growth, 2021 - mlsb.io
Engineering a protein's stability improves its shelf life and expands its application
environment. Current studies of protein stability often involve predicting stability change from …

Uninterpretable interactions: epistasis as uncertainty

ZR Sailer, MJ Harms - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Epistasis is a common feature of genotype-phenotype maps. Understanding the patterns of
epistasis is critical for predicting unmeasured phenotypes, explaining evolutionary …

An allosteric pathway explains beneficial fitness in yeast for long‐range mutations in an essential TIM barrel enzyme

YH Chan, KB Zeldovich, CR Matthews - Protein Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein evolution proceeds by a complex response of organismal fitness to mutations that
can simultaneously affect protein stability, structure, and enzymatic activity. To probe the …

[HTML][HTML] Rewards of divergence in sequences, 3-D structures and dynamics of yeast and human spliceosome SF3b complexes

A Yazhini, S Sandhya, N Srinivasan - Current research in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The evolution of homologous and functionally equivalent multiprotein assemblies is
intriguing considering sequence divergence of constituent proteins. Here, we studied the …