Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

Advances in computational methods for ligand binding kinetics

F Sohraby, A Nunes-Alves - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Binding kinetic parameters can be correlated with drug efficacy, which in recent years led to
the development of various computational methods for predicting binding kinetic rates and …

Decoding the identification mechanism of an SAM-III Riboswitch on ligands through multiple independent Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

J Chen, Q Zeng, W Wang, H Sun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-responsive riboswitches play a central role in the regulation
of bacterial gene expression at the level of transcription attenuation or translation inhibition …

Conformations of KRAS4B affected by its partner binding and G12C mutation: insights from GaMD trajectory-image transformation-based deep learning

J Chen, J Wang, W Yang, L Zhao… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Binding of partners and mutations highly affects the conformational dynamics of KRAS4B,
which is of significance for deeply understanding its function. Gaussian accelerated …

MoDAFold: a strategy for predicting the structure of missense mutant protein based on AlphaFold2 and molecular dynamics

L Zheng, S Shi, X Sun, M Lu, Y Liao… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Protein structure prediction is a longstanding issue crucial for identifying new drug targets
and providing a mechanistic understanding of protein functions. To enhance the progress in …

Predicting biomolecular binding kinetics: A review

J Wang, HN Do, K Koirala, Y Miao - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular binding kinetics including the association (k on) and dissociation (k off) rates
are critical parameters for therapeutic design of small-molecule drugs, peptides, and …

Structural insights into dimerization and activation of the mGlu2–mGlu3 and mGlu2–mGlu4 heterodimers

X Wang, M Wang, T Xu, Y Feng, Q Shao, S Han, X Chu… - Cell Research, 2023 - nature.com
Heterodimerization of the metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlus) has shown importance
in the functional modulation of the receptors and offers potential drug targets for treating …

Computer-aided tunnel engineering: a promising strategy for improving lipase applications in esterification reactions

W Chong, Y Qi, L Ji, Z Zhang, Z Lu, B Nian, Y Hu - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Esterification is one of the most important reactions in organic synthesis and industrial
applications. The applications of lipases in esterification are increasingly widespread and …

Defect-characterized phase transition kinetics

X Zhang, J Zhang, H Wang, J Rogal, HY Li… - Applied physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phase transitions are a common phenomenon in condensed matter and act as a critical
degree of freedom that can be employed to tailor the mechanical or electronic properties of …

Physics-informed active learning for accelerating quantum chemical simulations

YF Hou, L Zhang, Q Zhang, F Ge… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemical simulations can be greatly accelerated by constructing machine learning
potentials, which is often done using active learning (AL). The usefulness of the constructed …