Study of human Orexin-1 and-2 G-protein-coupled receptors with novel and published antagonists by modeling, molecular dynamics simulations, and site-directed …

A Heifetz, GB Morris, PC Biggin, O Barker, T Fryatt… - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
The class A G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) Orexin-1 (OX1) and Orexin-2 (OX2) are
located predominantly in the brain and are linked to a range of different physiological …

GPCR-PEnDB: a database of protein sequences and derived features to facilitate prediction and classification of G protein-coupled receptors

K Begum, JE Mohl, F Ayivor, EE Perez, MY Leung - Database, 2020 - academic.oup.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest group of membrane receptor
proteins in eukaryotes. Due to their significant roles in various physiological processes such …

Fighting obesity with a sugar-based library: Discovery of novel MCH-1R antagonists by a new computational–VAST approach for exploration of GPCR binding sites

A Heifetz, O Barker, G Verquin, N Wimmer… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Obesity is an increasingly common disease. While antagonism of the melanin-concentrating
hormone-1 receptor (MCH-1R) has been widely reported as a promising therapeutic avenue …

An efficient CNN-based classification on G-protein Coupled Receptors using TF-IDF and N-gram

M Li, C Ling, J Gao - 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Protein sequence classification is increasingly crucial in the current “biological information
sciences” epoch, where researchers hammer at functional genomics and proteomics …

Deep hierarchical embedding for simultaneous modeling of gpcr proteins in a unified metric space

T Lee, S Lee, M Kang, S Kim - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
GPCR proteins belong to diverse families of proteins that are defined at multiple hierarchical
levels. Inspecting relationships between GPCR proteins on the hierarchical structure is …

Finding class C GPCR subtype-discriminating n-grams through feature selection

C König, R Alquézar, A Vellido, J Giraldo - 8th International Conference on …, 2014 - Springer
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large and heterogeneous superfamily of
receptors that are key cell players for their role as extracellular signal transmitters. Class C …

Using random forests for assistance in the curation of G-protein coupled receptor databases

A Shkurin, A Vellido - Biomedical engineering online, 2017 - Springer
Background Biology is experiencing a gradual but fast transformation from a laboratory-
centred science towards a data-centred one. As such, it requires robust data engineering …

Classification of GPCRs proteins using a statistical encoding method

MJ Iqbal, I Faye, BB Samir - 2016 international joint conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classification of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) according to their functions is an
ongoing area of research which is helpful for the pharmaceutical industry in the …

The extracellular N-terminal domain suffices to discriminate class CG Protein-Coupled Receptor subtypes from n-grams of their sequences

C König, R Alquézar, A Vellido… - 2015 International Joint …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The investigation of protein functionality often relies on the knowledge of crystal 3-D
structure. This structure is not always known or easily unravelled, which is the case of …

Immunological computation for protein function prediction

M Zekri, K Alem, L Souici-Meslati - fundamenta informaticae, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Immunological computation is one of the largest recent bio-inspired approaches of artificial
intelligence. Artificial immune systems (AIS) are inspired by the processes of the biological …