AlphaFold, artificial intelligence (AI), and allostery

R Nussinov, M Zhang, Y Liu, H Jang - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
AlphaFold has burst into our lives. A powerful algorithm that underscores the strength of
biological sequence data and artificial intelligence (AI). AlphaFold has appended projects …

Machine learning force fields and coarse-grained variables in molecular dynamics: application to materials and biological systems

P Gkeka, G Stoltz, A Barati Farimani… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Machine learning encompasses tools and algorithms that are now becoming popular in
almost all scientific and technological fields. This is true for molecular dynamics as well …

PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins

T Lazar, E Martínez-Pérez, F Quaglia… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Protein Ensemble Database (PED)(https://proteinensemble. org), which holds
structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), has been significantly …

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 …

De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies

A Pillai, A Idris, A Philomin, C Weidle, R Skotheim… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Allosteric modulation of protein function, wherein the binding of an effector to a protein
triggers conformational changes at distant functional sites, plays a central part in the control …

Critical assessment of methods for predicting the 3D structure of proteins and protein complexes

SJ Wodak, S Vajda, MF Lensink… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Advances in a scientific discipline are often measured by small, incremental steps. In this
review, we report on two intertwined disciplines in the protein structure prediction field …

Discovery of cryptic allosteric sites using reversed allosteric communication by a combined computational and experimental strategy

D Ni, J Wei, X He, AU Rehman, X Li, Y Qiu, J Pu… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Allostery, which is one of the most direct and efficient methods to fine-tune protein functions,
has gained increasing recognition in drug discovery. However, there are several challenges …

Emerging roles of SIRT6 in human diseases and its modulators

G Liu, H Chen, H Liu, W Zhang… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The biological functions of sirtuin 6 (SIRT6; eg, deacetylation, defatty‐acylation, and mono‐
ADP‐ribosylation) play a pivotal role in regulating lifespan and several fundamental …

PASSer: fast and accurate prediction of protein allosteric sites

H Tian, S **ao, X Jiang, P Tao - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Allostery refers to the biological process by which an effector modulator binds to a protein at
a site distant from the active site, known as allosteric site. Identifying allosteric sites is …

The role of conformational dynamics and allostery in modulating protein evolution

P Campitelli, T Modi, S Kumar… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Advances in sequencing techniques and statistical methods have made it possible not only
to predict sequences of ancestral proteins but also to identify thousands of mutations in the …