Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D **, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Hallucinating symmetric protein assemblies

BIM Wicky, LF Milles, A Courbet, RJ Ragotte… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Deep learning generative approaches provide an opportunity to broadly explore protein
structure space beyond the sequences and structures of natural proteins. Here, we use deep …

Quadrivalent influenza nanoparticle vaccines induce broad protection

S Boyoglu-Barnum, D Ellis, RA Gillespie… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Influenza vaccines that confer broad and durable protection against diverse viral strains
would have a major effect on global health, as they would lessen the need for annual …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in protein structure prediction and design

B Kuhlman, P Bradley - Nature reviews molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The prediction of protein three-dimensional structure from amino acid sequence has been a
grand challenge problem in computational biophysics for decades, owing to its intrinsic …

Generative models for graph-based protein design

J Ingraham, V Garg, R Barzilay… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Engineered proteins offer the potential to solve many problems in biomedicine, energy, and
materials science, but creating designs that succeed is difficult in practice. A significant …

Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …

Rapid development of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain self-assembled nanoparticle vaccine candidates

YF Kang, C Sun, Z Zhuang, RY Yuan, Q Zheng, JP Li… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The coronavirus disease pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus resulted in economic losses and threatened human health worldwide. The …

Expansion microscopy: principles and uses in biological research

AT Wassie, Y Zhao, ES Boyden - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
Many biological investigations require 3D imaging of cells or tissues with nanoscale spatial
resolution. We recently discovered that preserved biological specimens can be physically …

The rise of metal–organic polyhedra

S Lee, H Jeong, D Nam, MS Lah, W Choe - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic polyhedra are a member of metal–organic materials, and are together with
metal–organic frameworks utilized as emerging porous platforms for numerous applications …