Molecular mechanisms of two-component signal transduction

CP Zschiedrich, V Keidel, H Szurmant - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Two-component systems (TCS) comprising sensor histidine kinases and response regulator
proteins are among the most important players in bacterial and archaeal signal transduction …

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 …

Robust and accurate prediction of residue–residue interactions across protein interfaces using evolutionary information

S Ovchinnikov, H Kamisetty, D Baker - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Do the amino acid sequence identities of residues that make contact across protein
interfaces covary during evolution? If so, such covariance could be used to predict contacts …

Direct-coupling analysis of residue coevolution captures native contacts across many protein families

F Morcos, A Pagnani, B Lunt… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The similarity in the three-dimensional structures of homologous proteins imposes strong
constraints on their sequence variability. It has long been suggested that the resulting …

Protein 3D structure computed from evolutionary sequence variation

DS Marks, LJ Colwell, R Sheridan, TA Hopf, A Pagnani… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary trajectory of a protein through sequence space is constrained by its
function. Collections of sequence homologs record the outcomes of millions of evolutionary …

Improved contact prediction in proteins: using pseudolikelihoods to infer Potts models

M Ekeberg, C Lövkvist, Y Lan, M Weigt, E Aurell - Physical Review E …, 2013 - APS
Spatially proximate amino acids in a protein tend to coevolve. A protein's three-dimensional
(3D) structure hence leaves an echo of correlations in the evolutionary record. Reverse …

Are biological systems poised at criticality?

T Mora, W Bialek - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2011 - Springer
Many of life's most fascinating phenomena emerge from interactions among many elements—
many amino acids determine the structure of a single protein, many genes determine the …

Inverse statistical physics of protein sequences: a key issues review

S Cocco, C Feinauer, M Figliuzzi… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In the course of evolution, proteins undergo important changes in their amino acid
sequences, while their three-dimensional folded structure and their biological function …

Coevolutionary landscape inference and the context-dependence of mutations in beta-lactamase TEM-1

M Figliuzzi, H Jacquier, A Schug… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The quantitative characterization of mutational landscapes is a task of outstanding
importance in evolutionary and medical biology: It is, for example, of central importance for …

Emerging computational methods for the rational discovery of allosteric drugs

JR Wagner, CT Lee, JD Durrant, RD Malmstrom… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Allosteric drug development holds promise for delivering medicines that are more selective
and less toxic than those that target orthosteric sites. To date, the discovery of allosteric …