Current trends in health-promoting potential and biomaterial applications of edible mushrooms for human wellness

A Hamza, S Ghanekar, DS Kumar - Food Bioscience, 2023 - Elsevier
Edible mushrooms are ubiquitous around the world due to their enormous health benefits.
Mushrooms have been used as folk medicine and healthy food from ancient times but their …

New progresses on cell surface protein HSPA5/BiP/GRP78 in cancers and COVID-19

T Li, J Fu, J Cheng, AA Elfiky, C Wei, J Fu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heat-shock-protein family A (Hsp70) member 5 (HSPA5), aliases GRP78 or BiP, is a protein
encoded with 654 amino acids by the HSPA5 gene located on human chromosome 9q33. 3 …

How helpful were molecular dynamics simulations in shaping our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein dynamics?

JM Abduljalil, AM Elghareib, A Samir, AA Ezat… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S) represents an important viral component that is required
for successful viral infection in humans owing to its essential role in recognition of and entry …

SARS-CoV-2 delta variant is recognized through GRP78 host-cell surface receptor, in silico perspective

AA Elfiky, IM Ibrahim, AM Elgohary - International Journal of Peptide …, 2022 - Springer
Different SARS-CoV-2 new variants emerged and spread during the past few months,
sparking infections and death counts. The new variant B. 1.617 (delta variant) sparked in …

Anti-breast cancer drugs targeting cell-surface glucose-regulated protein 78: a drug repositioning in silico study

A Abu-Mahfouz, M Ali, A Elfiky - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Breast cancer (BC) is prevalent worldwide and is a leading cause of death among women.
However, cell-surface glucose-regulated protein 78 (cs-GRP78) is overexpressed in several …

Cs-GRP78 Recognition Site on Dengue Virus Envelope Protein: in silico perspective

AA Elfiky, A Amr, A Mosaad, AK Mubarak… - Future …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: To understand the binding of the dengue virus (DENV) envelope and the host cell
factor, GRP78. Materials & methods: In this study, we simulate the binding of the DENV …

In silico structural elucidation of Nipah virus L protein and targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain by nucleoside analogs

JM Abduljalil, AA Elfiky, ESTA Sayed… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The large (L) protein of Mononegavirales is a multi-domain protein that performs
transcription and genome replication. One of the important domains in L is the RNA …

Effect of temperature and nucleotide on the binding of BiP chaperone to a protein substrate

M Rivera, F Burgos‐Bravo, F Engelberger… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
BiP (immunoglobulin heavy‐chain binding protein) is a Hsp70 monomeric ATPase motor
that plays broad and crucial roles in maintaining proteostasis inside the cell. Structurally, BiP …

In silico targeting of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain from different variants with chaga mushroom terpenoids

FG Amin, AA Elfiky, AM Nassar - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Terpenoids from the chaga mushroom have been identified as potential antiviral agents
against SARS-CoV-2. This is because it can firmly bind to the viral spike receptor binding …

A computational approach to predict the possible binding site of HCV NS5A and the host cell chaperone, GRP78

WM Elshemey, AA Elfiky, AM Elgohary - Future Virology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) is an endoplasmic reticulum located chaperone
that plays a vital role during cellular stress. NS5A is one of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) non …