Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Engineering cytokine therapeutics

J Deckers, T Anbergen, AM Hokke, A de Dreu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines have pivotal roles in immunity, making them attractive as therapeutics for a variety
of immune-related disorders. However, the widespread clinical use of cytokines has been …

Mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting for higher-order structure analysis: fundamentals and applications

XR Liu, MM Zhang, ML Gross - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins adopt different higher-order structures (HOS) to enable their unique biological
functions. Understanding the complexities of protein higher-order structures and dynamics …

Protein X-ray crystallography and drug discovery

L Maveyraud, L Mourey - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the advent of structural biology in the drug discovery process, medicinal chemists
gained the opportunity to use detailed structural information in order to progress screening …

[HTML][HTML] The accuracy of protein structures in solution determined by AlphaFold and NMR

NJ Fowler, MP Williamson - Structure, 2022 - cell.com
Summary In the recent Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) competition,
AlphaFold2 performed outstandingly. Its worst predictions were for nuclear magnetic …

On the binding affinity of macromolecular interactions: daring to ask why proteins interact

PL Kastritis, AMJJ Bonvin - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions between proteins are orchestrated in a precise and time-dependent manner,
underlying cellular function. The binding affinity, defined as the strength of these …

Protein data bank: a comprehensive review of 3D structure holdings and worldwide utilization by researchers, educators, and students

SK Burley, HM Berman, JM Duarte, Z Feng, JW Flatt… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB),
funded by the United States National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and …

Very fast empirical prediction and rationalization of protein pKa values

H Li, AD Robertson, JH Jensen - Proteins: Structure, Function …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A very fast empirical method is presented for structure‐based protein pKa prediction and
rationalization. The desolvation effects and intra‐protein interactions, which cause variations …

Facing and overcoming sensitivity challenges in biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

JH Ardenkjaer‐Larsen, GS Boebinger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the Spring of 2013, NMR spectroscopists convened at the Weizmann Institute in Israel to
brainstorm on approaches to improve the sensitivity of NMR experiments, particularly when …

Intrinsically disordered proteins from A to Z

VN Uversky - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The ideas that proteins might possess specific functions without being uniquely folded into
rigid 3D-structures and that these floppy polypeptides might constitute a noticeable part of …