Macromolecular modeling and design in Rosetta: recent methods and frameworks

JK Leman, BD Weitzner, SM Lewis, J Adolf-Bryfogle… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The Rosetta software for macromolecular modeling, docking and design is extensively used
in laboratories worldwide. During two decades of development by a community of …

Advances in molecular dynamics simulations and enhanced sampling methods for the study of protein systems

R Lazim, D Suh, S Choi - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a rigorous theoretical tool that when used efficiently
could provide reliable answers to questions pertaining to the structure-function relationship …

Epistasis at the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain interface and the propitiously boring implications for vaccine escape

ND Rochman, G Faure, YI Wolf, PL Freddolino… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
At the time of this writing, December 2021, potential emergence of vaccine escape variants
of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a grave global …

Predicting and experimentally validating hot-spot residues at protein–protein interfaces

AA Ibarra, GJ Bartlett, Z Hegedus, S Dutt… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are vital to all biological processes. These interactions
are often dynamic, sometimes transient, typically occur over large topographically shallow …

Accurate estimation of ligand binding affinity changes upon protein mutation

M Aldeghi, V Gapsys, BL de Groot - ACS central science, 2018 - ACS Publications
The design of proteins with novel ligand-binding functions holds great potential for
application in biomedicine and biotechnology. However, our ability to engineer ligand …

RosettaDDGPrediction for high‐throughput mutational scans: From stability to binding

V Sora, AO Laspiur, K Degn, M Arnaudi… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable prediction of free energy changes upon amino acid substitutions (ΔΔ G s) is crucial
to investigate their impact on protein stability and protein–protein interaction. Advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Protein structure-based evaluation of missense variants: resources, challenges and future directions

A David, MJE Sternberg - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide an overview of the methods that can be used for protein structure-based
evaluation of missense variants. The algorithms can be broadly divided into those that …

DnaJC7 specifically regulates tau seeding

VA Perez, DW Sanders, A Mendoza-Oliva… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Neurodegenerative tauopathies are caused by accumulation of toxic tau protein assemblies.
This appears to involve template-based seeding events, whereby tau monomer changes …

Computationally designed ACE2 decoy receptor binds SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein with tight nanomolar affinity

B Havranek, KK Chan, A Wu, E Procko… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Even with the availability of vaccines, therapeutic options for COVID-19 still remain highly
desirable, especially in hospitalized patients with moderate or severe disease. Soluble …

Pre‐exascale HPC approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Covid‐19 research: A use case

M Wieczor, V Genna, J Aranda… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exascale computing has been a dream for ages and is close to becoming a reality that will
impact how molecular simulations are being performed, as well as the quantity and quality of …