New Insights into the Cooperativity and Dynamics of Dimeric Enzymes

KW Chen, TY Sun, YD Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
A survey of protein databases indicates that the majority of enzymes exist in oligomeric
forms, with about half of those found in the UniProt database being homodimeric …

Hot spots-making directed evolution easier

H Yu, S Ma, Y Li, PA Dalby - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Directed evolution has emerged as a powerful strategy to engineer various properties of
proteins. Traditional methods to construct libraries such as error-prone PCR and DNA …

Phospholipase iPLA2β averts ferroptosis by eliminating a redox lipid death signal

WY Sun, VA Tyurin, K Mikulska-Ruminska… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Ferroptosis, triggered by discoordination of iron, thiols and lipids, leads to the accumulation
of 15-hydroperoxy (Hp)-arachidonoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (15-HpETE-PE), generated …

Mapping allosteric communications within individual proteins

J Wang, A Jain, LR McDonald, C Gambogi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Allostery in proteins influences various biological processes such as regulation of gene
transcription and activities of enzymes and cell signaling. Computational approaches for …

Comparative perturbation-based modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding with host receptor and neutralizing antibodies: Structurally adaptable allosteric …

GM Verkhivker, S Agajanian, DY Oztas, G Gupta - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this study, we used an integrative computational approach to examine molecular
mechanisms and determine functional signatures underlying the role of functional residues …

Along the allostery stream: Recent advances in computational methods for allosteric drug discovery

D Ni, Z Chai, Y Wang, M Li, Z Yu, Y Liu… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Allostery is a universal, biological phenomenon in which orthosteric sites are fine‐tuned by
topologically distal allosteric sites triggered by perturbations, such as ligand binding, residue …

Evol and ProDy for bridging protein sequence evolution and structural dynamics

A Bakan, A Dutta, W Mao, Y Liu, C Chennubhotla… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Correlations between sequence evolution and structural dynamics are of utmost importance
in understanding the molecular mechanisms of function and their evolution. We have …

MD-TASK: a software suite for analyzing molecular dynamics trajectories

DK Brown, DL Penkler, O Sheik Amamuddy… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) determines the physical motions of atoms of a biological
macromolecule in a cell-like environment and is an important method in structural …

Integrated biophysical modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding and allosteric interactions with antibodies

GM Verkhivker, L Di Paola - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Structural and biochemical studies of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2
spike glycoproteins and complexes with highly potent antibodies have revealed multiple …

DynOmics: dynamics of structural proteome and beyond

H Li, YY Chang, JY Lee, I Bahar… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DynOmics (dynomics. pitt. edu) is a portal developed to leverage rapidly growing
structural proteomics data by efficiently and accurately evaluating the dynamics of …