Self-assembled peptide and protein nanostructures for anti-cancer therapy: Targeted delivery, stimuli-responsive devices and immunotherapy

M Delfi, R Sartorius, M Ashrafizadeh, E Sharifi, Y Zhang… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-assembled peptides and proteins possess tremendous potential as targeted drug
delivery systems and key applications of these well-defined nanostructures reside in anti …

VARIDT 2.0: structural variability of drug transporter

T Fu, F Li, Y Zhang, J Yin, W Qiu, X Li, X Liu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The structural variability data of drug transporter (DT) are key for research on precision
medicine and rational drug use. However, these valuable data are not sufficiently covered …

Advances in genomics for drug development

R Spreafico, LB Soriaga, J Grosse, HW Virgin, A Telenti - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Drug development (target identification, advancing drug leads to candidates for preclinical
and clinical studies) can be facilitated by genetic and genomic knowledge. Here, we review …

Comprehensive characterization of amino acid positions in protein structures reveals molecular effect of missense variants

S Iqbal, E Pérez-Palma, JB Jespersen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Interpretation of the colossal number of genetic variants identified from sequencing
applications is one of the major bottlenecks in clinical genetics, with the inference of the …

The 3D mutational constraint on amino acid sites in the human proteome

B Li, DM Roden, JA Capra - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Quantification of the tolerance of protein sites to genetic variation has become a cornerstone
of variant interpretation. We hypothesize that the constraint on missense variation at …

Predicting functional effect of missense variants using graph attention neural networks

H Zhang, MS Xu, X Fan, WK Chung… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of damaging missense variants is critically important for interpreting a
genome sequence. Although many methods have been developed, their performance has …

Gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiome-derived neurotoxins—potent neuro-inflammatory signals from the GI tract via the systemic circulation into the brain

WJ Lukiw - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The microbiome of the human gastrointestinal (GI)-tract is a rich and dynamic source of
microorganisms that together possess a staggering complexity and diversity. Collectively …

Characterization of intrinsically disordered regions in proteins informed by human genetic diversity

SS Ahmed, ZT Rifat, R Lohia, AJ Campbell… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
All proteomes contain both proteins and polypeptide segments that don't form a defined
three-dimensional structure yet are biologically active—called intrinsically disordered …

Genomics 2 Proteins portal: a resource and discovery tool for linking genetic screening outputs to protein sequences and structures

S Kwon, J Safer, DT Nguyen, D Hoksza, P May… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in AI-based methods have revolutionized the field of structural biology.
Concomitantly, high-throughput sequencing and functional genomics have generated …

[HTML][HTML] Protein conformational switch discerned via network centrality properties

D Foutch, B Pham, T Shen - Computational and Structural Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Network analysis has emerged as a powerful tool for examining structural biology systems.
The spatial organization of the components of a biomolecular structure has been rendered …