Computational design of structured loops for new protein functions

K Kundert, T Kortemme - Biological chemistry, 2019 - degruyter.com
The ability to engineer the precise geometries, fine-tuned energetics and subtle dynamics
that are characteristic of functional proteins is a major unsolved challenge in the field of …

CGLFold: a contact-assisted de novo protein structure prediction using global exploration and loop perturbation sampling algorithm

J Liu, XG Zhou, Y Zhang, GJ Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Regions that connect secondary structure elements in a protein are known as
loops, whose slight change will produce dramatic effect on the entire topology. This study …

A de novo protein structure prediction by iterative partition sampling, topology adjustment and residue-level distance deviation optimization

J Liu, KL Zhao, GX He, LJ Wang, XG Zhou… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation With the great progress of deep learning-based inter-residue contact/distance
prediction, the discrete space formed by fragment assembly cannot satisfy the distance …

Protein predictive modeling and simulation of mutations of Presenilin-1 familial Alzheimer's disease on the orthosteric site

A Soto-Ospina, P Araque Marin, G Bedoya… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease pathology is characterized by β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary
tangles. Amyloid precursor protein is processed by β and γ secretase, resulting in the …

Constraint guided beta-sheet refinement for protein structure prediction

MAH Newton, R Zaman, F Mataeimoghadam… - … Biology and Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein structure prediction (PSP) is a crucial issue in Bioinformatics. PSP has its important
use in many vital research areas that include drug discovery. One of the important …

A variable neighbourhood descent heuristic for conformational search using a quantum annealer

DJJ Marchand, M Noori, A Roberts, G Rosenberg… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Discovering the low-energy conformations of a molecule is of great interest to computational
chemists, with applications in in silico materials design and drug discovery. In this paper, we …

Multiscale modeling of unfolding and bond dissociation of rubredoxin metalloprotein

A Sheikhzadeh, M Safaei, VF Naeini, M Baghani… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mechanical properties of proteins that have a crucial effect on their operation. This study
used a molecular dynamics simulation package to investigate rubredoxin unfolding on the …

Thyroid Hormone Receptor Agonistic and Antagonistic Activity of Newly Synthesized Dihydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers: An In Vitro and In Silico …

M Zhang, J Shi, B Li, H Ge, H Tao, J Zhang, X Li, Z Cai - Toxics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Dihydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (DiOH-PBDEs) could be the metabolites of
PBDEs of some organisms or the natural products of certain marine bacteria and algae. OH …

Design and Synthesis of Crosslinked Helix Dimers as Protein Tertiary Structure Mimics

SH Hong, T Nguyen, P Arora - Current protocols, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crosslinked helix dimers (CHDs) are synthetic tertiary helical structure motifs designed to
modulate interactions of proteins with binding partners. Helix dimers serve as mimics of …

Distance-guided protein folding based on generalized descent direction

L Wang, J Liu, Y **a, J Xu, X Zhou… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Advances in the prediction of the inter-residue distance for a protein sequence have
increased the accuracy to predict the correct folds of proteins with distance information …