Multiple sclerosis and myelin basic protein: Insights into protein disorder and disease

V Martinsen, P Kursula - Amino Acids, 2022 - Springer
Myelin basic protein (MBP) is an abundant protein in central nervous system (CNS) myelin.
MBP has long been studied as a factor in the pathogenesis of the autoimmune …

An online resource for GPCR structure determination and analysis

C Munk, E Mutt, V Isberg, LF Nikolajsen, JM Bibbe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) transduce physiological and sensory stimuli into
appropriate cellular responses and mediate the actions of one-third of drugs. GPCR …

SoluProt: prediction of soluble protein expression in Escherichia coli

J Hon, M Marusiak, T Martinek, A Kunka… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Poor protein solubility hinders the production of many therapeutic and industrially
useful proteins. Experimental efforts to increase solubility are plagued by low success rates …

LARMD: integration of bioinformatic resources to profile ligand-driven protein dynamics with a case on the activation of estrogen receptor

JF Yang, F Wang, YZ Chen, GF Hao… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Protein dynamics is central to all biological processes, including signal transduction, cellular
regulation and biological catalysis. Among them, in-depth exploration of ligand-driven …

Protein thermostability engineering

HP Modarres, MR Mofrad, A Sanati-Nezhad - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of enzymes for industrial and biomedical applications is limited to their function at
elevated temperatures. The principles of thermostability engineering need to be …

Aerobactin Seems To Be a Promising Marker Compared With Unstable RmpA2 for the Identification of Hypervirulent Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: In Silico …

C Shankar, S Basu, B Lal, S Shanmugam… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background The incidence of hypervirulent (hv) carbapenem-resistant (CR) Klebsiella
pneumoniae (Kp) is increasing globally among various clones and is also responsible for …

Identification of a drug targeting an intrinsically disordered protein involved in pancreatic adenocarcinoma

JL Neira, J Bintz, M Arruebo, B Rizzuti, T Bonacci… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are prevalent in eukaryotes, performing signaling and
regulatory functions. Often associated with human diseases, they constitute drug …

Multi-epitope vaccine for monkeypox using pan-genome and reverse vaccinology approaches

RG Swetha, S Basu, S Ramaiah, A Anbarasu - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Outbreaks of monkeypox virus infections have imposed major health concerns worldwide,
with high morbidity threats to children and immunocompromised adults. Although …

SETH predicts nuances of residue disorder from protein embeddings

D Ilzhöfer, M Heinzinger, B Rost - Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Predictions for millions of protein three-dimensional structures are only a few clicks away
since the release of AlphaFold2 results for UniProt. However, many proteins have so-called …

Tripartite degrons confer diversity and specificity on regulated protein degradation in the ubiquitin-proteasome system

M Guharoy, P Bhowmick, M Sallam, P Tompa - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Specific signals (degrons) regulate protein turnover mediated by the ubiquitin-proteasome
system. Here we systematically analyse known degrons and propose a tripartite model …