AlphaFold2 and its applications in the fields of biology and medicine

Z Yang, X Zeng, Y Zhao, R Chen - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract AlphaFold2 (AF2) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by DeepMind
that can predict three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins from amino acid sequences …

Z-RNA biology: a central role in the innate immune response?

PJ Nichols, JB Krall, MA Henen, B Vögeli, Q Vicens - RNA, 2023 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Z-RNA is a higher-energy, left-handed conformation of RNA, whose function has remained
elusive. A growing body of work alludes to regulatory roles for Z-RNA in the immune …

Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate

A Herbert - Bioessays, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative non‐B‐DNA conformations formed under physiological conditions by sequences
called flipons include left‐handed Z‐DNA, three‐stranded triplexes, and four‐stranded i …

Structural and functional characterization of peste des petits ruminants virus coded hemagglutinin protein using various in-silico approaches

SK Gaur, Y Chaudhary, J Jain, R Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a disease of socioeconomic importance has been a
serious threat to small ruminants. The causative agent of this disease is PPR virus (PPRV) …

Identification of Orbivirus non-structural protein 5 (NS5), its role and interaction with RNA/DNA in infected cells

F Mohd Jaafar, B Monsion, PPC Mertens… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bioinformatic analyses have predicted that orbiviruses encode an additional, small non-
structural protein (NS5) from a secondary open reading frame on genome segment 10 …

AlphaFold2 in biomedical research: facilitating the development of diagnostic strategies for disease

H Zhang, J Lan, H Wang, R Lu, N Zhang… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Proteins, as the primary executors of physiological activity, serve as a key factor in disease
diagnosis and treatment. Research into their structures, functions, and interactions is …

Extensive Bioinformatics Analyses Reveal a Phylogenetically Conserved Winged Helix (WH) Domain (Zτ) of Topoisomerase IIα, Elucidating Its Very High Affinity for …

M Bartas, K Slychko, J Červeň, P Pečinka… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The dynamic processes operating on genomic DNA, such as gene expression and cellular
division, lead inexorably to topological challenges in the form of entanglements, catenanes …

Novel Z-DNA binding domains in giant viruses

MF Romero, JB Krall, PJ Nichols, J Vantreeck… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Z-nucleic acid structures play vital roles in cellular processes and have implications in innate
immunity due to their recognition by Zα domains containing proteins (Z-DNA/Z-RNA binding …

The Origin of Left-Handed Poly [d (GC)]

TM Jovin - Z-DNA: Methods and Protocols, 2023 - Springer
The discovery of a reversible transition in the helical sense of a double-helical DNA was
initiated by the first synthesis in 1967 of the alternating sequence poly [d (GC)]. In 1968 …

[PDF][PDF] Right-handed Z-DNA at ultrahigh resolution: a tale of two hands and the power of the crystallographic method

P Drozdzal, T Manszewski, M Gilski… - … Section D: Structural …, 2023 - journals.iucr.org
The self-complementary ld (CGCGCG) 2 purine/pyrimidine hexanucleotide was crystallized
in complex with the polyamine cadaverine and potassium cations. Since the oligonucleotide …