Sparks of function by de novo protein design

AE Chu, T Lu, PS Huang - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Information in proteins flows from sequence to structure to function, with each step
causally driven by the preceding one. Protein design is founded on inverting this process …

Computational chemistry in structure-based solute carrier transporter drug design: Recent advances and future perspectives

G Tu, T Fu, G Zheng, B Xu, R Gou, D Luo… - Journal of chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solute carrier transporters (SLCs) are a class of important transmembrane proteins that are
involved in the transportation of diverse solute ions and small molecules into cells. There are …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary history and activity towards oligosaccharides and polysaccharides of GH3 glycosidases from an Antarctic marine bacterium

A Marchetti, M Orlando, L Bombardi, S Fusco… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Glycoside hydrolases (GHs) are pivotal in the hydrolysis of the glycosidic bonds of sugars,
which are the main carbon and energy sources. The genome of Marinomonas sp. ef1, an …

Applicability of AlphaFold2 in the modeling of dimeric, trimeric, and tetrameric coiled‐coil domains

R Madaj, M Martinez‐Goikoetxea, K Kaminski… - Protein …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Coiled coils are a common protein structural motif involved in cellular functions ranging from
mediating protein–protein interactions to facilitating processes such as signal transduction …

Neural Network Potentials for Enabling Advanced Small-Molecule Drug Discovery and Generative Design

S Barnett, JD Chodera - GEN Biotechnology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Despite a Cambrian explosion in therapeutic modalities, small-molecule drugs remain a
prominent and advantageous medical intervention. The universe of synthesizable, drug-like …

Modeling Protein Conformations by Guiding AlphaFold2 with Distance Distributions. Application to Double Electron Electron Resonance (DEER) Spectroscopy.

T Wu, R A. Stein, TY Kao, B Brown, H S. Mchaourab - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
We describe a modified version of AlphaFold2 that incorporates experiential distance
distributions into the network architecture for protein structure prediction. Harnessing the …

Predicting metal-protein interactions using cofolding methods: Status quo

SL Duerr, U Rothlisberger - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Metals play important roles for enzyme function and many therapeutically relevant proteins.
Despite the fact that the first drugs developed via computer aided drug design were …