Targeting p53 pathways: mechanisms, structures, and advances in therapy

H Wang, M Guo, H Wei, Y Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
The TP53 tumor suppressor is the most frequently altered gene in human cancers, and has
been a major focus of oncology research. The p53 protein is a transcription factor that can …

Protein folds vs. protein folding: Differing questions, different challenges

SJ Chen, M Hassan, RL Jernigan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Protein fold prediction using deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the
field of protein structure prediction (1–3). By combining physical and geometric constraints …

Functional and biochemical characterization of the MazEF6 toxin-antitoxin system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

G Chattopadhyay, M Bhasin, S Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome harbors nine toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems that are
members of the mazEF family, unlike other prokaryotes, which have only one or two …

Identification of stabilizing point mutations through mutagenesis of destabilized protein libraries

S Ahmed, K Manjunath, G Chattopadhyay… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Although there have been recent transformative advances in the area of protein structure
prediction, prediction of point mutations that improve protein stability remains challenging. It …

A CcdB toxin‐derived peptide acts as a broad‐spectrum antibacterial therapeutic in infected mice

J Bhowmick, M Nag, P Ghosh, RS Rajmani… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Abstract The bacterial toxin CcdB (Controller of Cell death or division B) targets DNA
Gyrase, an essential bacterial topoisomerase, which is also the molecular target for …

Deep mutational scanning to probe specificity determinants in proteins

J Bhowmick, S Chandra, R Varadarajan - Structure and Intrinsic Disorder in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) allows massively parallel investigations of large libraries
of gene variants and helps in elucidating genotype–function–stability relationships in …

Structural and functional determinants inferred from deep mutational scans

P Bajaj, K Manjunath, R Varadarajan - Protein Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mutations that affect protein binding to a cognate partner primarily occur either at buried
residues or at exposed residues directly involved in partner binding. Distinguishing between …

Combining cysteine scanning with chemical labeling to map protein-protein interactions and infer bound structure in an intrinsically disordered region

S Ahmed, G Chattopadhyay, K Manjunath… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome harbours nine toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems of the
mazEF family. These consist of two proteins, a toxin and an antitoxin, encoded in an operon …

Biophysical Correlates of Enhanced Immunogenicity of a Stabilized Variant of the Receptor Binding Domain of SARS-CoV-2

K Kanjo, G Chattopadhyay, SK Malladi… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The receptor binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the primary target of neutralizing
antibodies. We have previously reported the design and characterization of a mammalian …

Ter‐Seq: A high‐throughput method to stabilize transient ternary complexes and measure associated kinetics

G Chattopadhyay, S Ahmed, NS Srilatha… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Regulation of biological processes by proteins often involves the formation of transient,
multimeric complexes whose characterization is mechanistically important but challenging …