Recent advances in the understanding of brown spider venoms: From the biology of spiders to the molecular mechanisms of toxins

LH Gremski, D Trevisan-Silva, VP Ferrer… - Toxicon, 2014 - Elsevier
The Loxosceles genus spiders (the brown spiders) are encountered in all the continents,
and the clinical manifestations following spider bites include skin necrosis with gravitational …

Progress and challenges in predicting protein–protein interaction sites

I Ezkurdia, L Bartoli, P Fariselli, R Casadio… - Briefings in …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The identification of protein–protein interaction sites is an essential intermediate step for
mutant design and the prediction of protein networks. In recent years a significant number of …

Tools for integrated sequence-structure analysis with UCSF Chimera

EC Meng, EF Pettersen, GS Couch, CC Huang… - BMC …, 2006 - Springer
Background Comparing related structures and viewing the structures in the context of
sequence alignments are important tasks in protein structure-function research. While many …

ProTherm and ProNIT: thermodynamic databases for proteins and protein–nucleic acid interactions

MDS Kumar, KA Bava, MM Gromiha… - Nucleic acids …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
ProTherm and ProNIT are two thermodynamic databases that contain experimentally
determined thermodynamic parameters of protein stability and protein–nucleic acid …

MultiSeq: unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis

E Roberts, J Eargle, D Wright, Z Luthey-Schulten - BMC bioinformatics, 2006 - Springer
Background Since the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2000,
bioinformatic data have been accumulating at an overwhelming pace. Currently, more than …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting enzyme class from protein structure using Bayesian classification.

LC Borro, SRM Oliveira, MEB Yamagishi, AL Mancini… - 2006 - academia.edu
Predicting enzyme class from protein structure parameters is a challenging problem in
protein analysis. We developed a method to predict enzyme class that combines the …

A symbiotic bacterium of Antarctic fish reveals environmental adaptability mechanisms and biosynthetic potential towards antibacterial and cytotoxic activities

Y Xiao, F Yan, Y Cui, J Du, G Hu, W Zhai… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Antarctic microbes are important agents for evolutionary adaptation and natural resource of
bioactive compounds, harboring the particular metabolic pathways to biosynthesize natural …

[HTML][HTML] Protein allosteric site identification using machine learning and per amino acid residue reported internal protein nanoenvironment descriptors

FB Omage, JA Salim, I Mazoni, IH Yano, L Borro… - Computational and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Allosteric regulation plays a crucial role in modulating protein functions and represents a
promising strategy in drug development, offering enhanced specificity and reduced toxicity …

Crystallographic structure and substrate-binding interactions of the molybdate-binding protein of the phytopathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri

A Balan, C Santacruz-Pérez, A Moutran… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2008 - Elsevier
In Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri (Xac or X. citri), the modA gene codes for a periplasmic
protein (ModA) that is capable of binding molybdate and tungstate as part of the ABC-type …

Computational analysis of bevacizumab binding with protein receptors for its potential anticancer activity

N Alsakhen, ES Radwan, I Zafer… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Breast cancer poses a significant global challenge, prompting researchers to explore novel
approaches for potential treatments. In this study, we investigated the binding free energy (Δ …