Emerging methods in protein co-evolution

D De Juan, F Pazos, A Valencia - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Co-evolution is a fundamental component of the theory of evolution and is essential for
understanding the relationships between species in complex ecological networks. A wide …

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 …

Uncovering disease-disease relationships through the incomplete interactome

J Menche, A Sharma, M Kitsak, SD Ghiassian, M Vidal… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A disease is rarely a straightforward consequence of an abnormality in a
single gene, but rather reflects the interplay of multiple molecular processes. The …

Protein-protein docking: From interaction to interactome

IA Vakser - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
The protein-protein docking problem is one of the focal points of activity in computational
biophysics and structural biology. The three-dimensional structure of a protein-protein …

Residue mutations and their impact on protein structure and function: detecting beneficial and pathogenic changes

RA Studer, BH Dessailly, CA Orengo - Biochemical journal, 2013 - portlandpress.com
The present review focuses on the evolution of proteins and the impact of amino acid
mutations on function from a structural perspective. Proteins evolve under the law of natural …

Analyzing protein–protein interaction networks

GCKW Koh, P Porras, B Aranda… - Journal of proteome …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The advent of the “omics” era in biology research has brought new challenges and requires
the development of novel strategies to answer previously intractable questions. Molecular …

Protein modeling: what happened to the “protein structure gap”?

T Schwede - Structure, 2013 - cell.com
Computational modeling of three-dimensional macromolecular structures and complexes
from their sequence has been a long-standing vision in structural biology. Over the last 2 …

Optimized atomic statistical potentials: assessment of protein interfaces and loops

GQ Dong, H Fan, D Schneidman-Duhovny… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Statistical potentials have been widely used for modeling whole proteins and
their parts (eg sidechains and loops) as well as interactions between proteins, nucleic acids …

Structure of the activating IL-1 receptor signaling complex

C Thomas, JF Bazan, KC Garcia - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract Interleukin-1 (IL-1)-family cytokines are mediators of innate and adaptive immunity.
They exert proinflammatory effects by binding a primary receptor that recruits a receptor …

Towards a detailed atlas of protein–protein interactions

R Mosca, T Pons, A Céol, A Valencia, P Aloy - Current opinion in structural …, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review current resources that organize experimental knowledge of the
interaction space.•We present the latest efforts in the prediction of interactions and the …