[HTML][HTML] Boosting the full potential of PyMOL with structural biology plugins

S Rosignoli, A Paiardini - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, the number of available structural bioinformatics pipelines,
libraries, plugins, web resources and software has increased exponentially and become …

Epistasis in protein evolution

TN Starr, JW Thornton - Protein science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The structure, function, and evolution of proteins depend on physical and genetic
interactions among amino acids. Recent studies have used new strategies to explore the …

Predicting multiple conformations via sequence clustering and AlphaFold2

HK Wayment-Steele, A Ojoawo, R Otten, JM Apitz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract AlphaFold2 (ref.) has revolutionized structural biology by accurately predicting
single structures of proteins. However, a protein's biological function often depends on …

Impact of protein conformational diversity on AlphaFold predictions

T Saldaño, N Escobedo, J Marchetti, DJ Zea… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation After the outstanding breakthrough of AlphaFold in predicting protein 3D models,
new questions appeared and remain unanswered. The ensemble nature of proteins, for …

Robust and accurate prediction of residue–residue interactions across protein interfaces using evolutionary information

S Ovchinnikov, H Kamisetty, D Baker - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Do the amino acid sequence identities of residues that make contact across protein
interfaces covary during evolution? If so, such covariance could be used to predict contacts …

Predicting protein conformational motions using energetic frustration analysis and AlphaFold2

X Guan, QY Tang, W Ren, M Chen, W Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Proteins perform their biological functions through motion. Although high throughput
prediction of the three-dimensional static structures of proteins has proved feasible using …

Prediction of multiple conformational states by combining sequence clustering with AlphaFold2

HK Wayment-Steele, S Ovchinnikov, L Colwell, D Kern - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract AlphaFold2 (AF2) has revolutionized structural biology by accurately predicting
single structures of proteins and protein-protein complexes. However, biological function is …

Emerging computational methods for the rational discovery of allosteric drugs

JR Wagner, CT Lee, JD Durrant, RD Malmstrom… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Allosteric drug development holds promise for delivering medicines that are more selective
and less toxic than those that target orthosteric sites. To date, the discovery of allosteric …

Biophysics of protein evolution and evolutionary protein biophysics

T Sikosek, HS Chan - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The study of molecular evolution at the level of protein-coding genes often entails comparing
large datasets of sequences to infer their evolutionary relationships. Despite the importance …

Large-Scale Conformational Changes and Protein Function: Breaking the in silico Barrier

L Orellana - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale conformational changes are essential to link protein structures with their
function at the cell and organism scale, but have been elusive both experimentally and …