Exploring and learning the universe of protein allostery using artificial intelligence augmented biophysical and computational approaches

S Agajanian, M Alshahrani, F Bai, P Tao… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Allosteric mechanisms are commonly employed regulatory tools used by proteins to
orchestrate complex biochemical processes and control communications in cells. The …

[HTML][HTML] Allostery: allosteric cancer drivers and innovative allosteric drugs

R Nussinov, M Zhang, R Maloney, Y Liu, CJ Tsai… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here, we discuss the principles of allosteric activating mutations, propagation downstream of
the signals that they prompt, and allosteric drugs, with examples from the Ras signaling …

Mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of protein binding domains

AJ Faure, J Domingo, JM Schmiedel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Allosteric communication between distant sites in proteins is central to biological regulation
but still poorly characterized, limiting understanding, engineering and drug development …

Linking genome variants to disease: scalable approaches to test the functional impact of human mutations

GM Findlay - Human molecular genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The application of genomics to medicine has accelerated the discovery of mutations
underlying disease and has enhanced our knowledge of the molecular underpinnings of …

Deep mutational scanning and machine learning reveal structural and molecular rules governing allosteric hotspots in homologous proteins

M Leander, Z Liu, Q Cui, S Raman - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
A fundamental question in protein science is where allosteric hotspots–residues critical for
allosteric signaling–are located, and what properties differentiate them. We carried out deep …

Computational and experimental methods for classifying variants of unknown clinical significance

M Spielmann, M Kircher - Molecular Case Studies, 2022 - molecularcasestudies.cshlp.org
The increase in sequencing capacity, reduction in costs, and national and international
coordinated efforts have led to the widespread introduction of next-generation sequencing …

Continuous evolution of user-defined genes at 1 million times the genomic mutation rate

G Rix, RL Williams, VJ Hu, A Spinner, A Pisera… - Science, 2024 - science.org
When nature evolves a gene over eons at scale, it produces a diversity of homologous
sequences with patterns of conservation and change that contain rich structural, functional …

Probing conformational landscapes and mechanisms of allosteric communication in the functional states of the ABL kinase domain using multiscale simulations and …

K Krishnan, H Tian, P Tao… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In the current study, multiscale simulation approaches and dynamic network methods are
employed to examine the dynamic and energetic details of conformational landscapes and …

Prediction of allosteric communication pathways in proteins

T Haliloglu, A Hacisuleyman, B Erman - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Allostery in proteins is an essential phenomenon in biological processes. In this
article, we present a computational model to predict paths of maximum information transfer …

Allosteric regulatory control in dihydrofolate reductase is revealed by dynamic asymmetry

IC Kazan, JH Mills, SB Ozkan - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the relationship between mutations and dynamics in Escherichia coli
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) using computational methods. Our study focused on the …