Methods and applications of in silico aptamer design and modeling

AA Buglak, AV Samokhvalov, AV Zherdev… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are nucleic acid analogues of antibodies with high affinity to different targets, such
as cells, viruses, proteins, inorganic materials, and coenzymes. Empirical approaches allow …

The HDOCK server for integrated protein–protein docking

Y Yan, H Tao, J He, SY Huang - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The HDOCK server (http://hdock. phys. hust. edu. cn/) is a highly integrated suite of
homology search, template-based modeling, structure prediction, macromolecular docking …

COVID-19 spike-host cell receptor GRP78 binding site prediction

IM Ibrahim, DH Abdelmalek, ME Elshahat, AA Elfiky - Journal of infection, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Understanding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) mode of host cell recognition
may help to fight the disease and save lives. The spike protein of coronaviruses is the main …

[HTML][HTML] Epitope-based chimeric peptide vaccine design against S, M and E proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19 pandemic: an in silico approach

MS Rahman, MN Hoque, MR Islam, S Akter… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiologic agent of the
ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a public health emergency of …

[PDF][PDF] Performance and its limits in rigid body protein-protein docking

IT Desta, KA Porter, B Xia, D Kozakov, S Vajda - Structure, 2020 - cell.com
The development of fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms enabled the sampling of billions
of complex conformations and thus revolutionized protein-protein docking. FFT-based …

Marine toxins targeting Kv1 channels: Pharmacological tools and therapeutic scaffolds

RK Finol-Urdaneta, A Belovanovic, M Micic-Vicovac… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Toxins from marine animals provide molecular tools for the study of many ion channels,
including mammalian voltage-gated potassium channels of the Kv1 family. Selectivity …

Designing of a next generation multiepitope based vaccine (MEV) against SARS-COV-2: Immunoinformatics and in silico approaches

M Tahir ul Qamar, A Rehman, K Tusleem, UA Ashfaq… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory
coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) is a significant threat to global health security. Till date, no …

Noncanonical binding of Lck to CD3ε promotes TCR signaling and CAR function

FA Hartl, E Beck-Garcìa, NM Woessner… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Initiation of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling involves phosphorylation of CD3
cytoplasmic tails by the tyrosine kinase Lck. How Lck is recruited to the TCR to initiate …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling antibody-antigen complexes by information-driven docking

F Ambrosetti, B Jiménez-García, J Roel-Touris… - Structure, 2020 - cell.com
Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins essential for immune response. Their capability to
recognize antigens with high specificity makes them excellent therapeutic targets …

[HTML][HTML] Non-synonymous mutations of SARS-CoV-2 leads epitope loss and segregates its variants

AM Gupta, J Chakrabarti, S Mandal - Microbes and infection, 2020 - Elsevier
The non-synonymous mutations of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from across the world have been
identified during the last few months. The surface glycoprotein spike of SARS-CoV-2 forms …