International journal of molecular sciences
May 16, 2024
Antibodies play a central role in the adaptive immune response of vertebrates through the specific recognition of exogenous or endogenous antigens. The rational design of antibodies has a wide range of biotechnological and medical applications, such ...
International journal of molecular sciences
May 15, 2024
The relationship between psychological stress, altered skin immunity, and autophagy-related genes (ATGs) is currently unclear. Psoriasis is a chronic skin inflammation of unclear etiology that is characterized by persistence and recurrence. Immune dy...
International journal of molecular sciences
May 14, 2024
Metabolomics, with its wealth of data, offers a valuable avenue for enhancing predictions and decision-making in diabetes. This observational study aimed to leverage machine learning (ML) algorithms to predict the 4-year risk of developing type 2 dia...
International journal of molecular sciences
May 8, 2024
Studying drug-target interactions (DTIs) is the foundational and crucial phase in drug discovery. Biochemical experiments, while being the most reliable method for determining drug-target affinity (DTA), are time-consuming and costly, making it chall...
International journal of molecular sciences
May 3, 2024
Prediction of binding sites for transcription factors is important to understand how the latter regulate gene expression and how this regulation can be modulated for therapeutic purposes. A consistent number of references address this issue with diff...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 30, 2024
Favipiravir (FP) and ebselen (EB) belong to a diverse class of antiviral drugs known for their significant efficacy in treating various viral infections. Utilizing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, machine learning, and van der Waals density funct...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 28, 2024
The molecular weight (MW) of an enzyme is a critical parameter in enzyme-constrained models (ecModels). It is determined by two factors: the presence of subunits and the abundance of each subunit. Although the number of subunits (NS) can potentially ...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 27, 2024
This work aimed to describe the adsorption behavior of Congo red (CR) onto activated biochar material prepared from waste (). The carbon precursor was soaked with phosphoric acid, followed by pyrolysis to convert the precursor into activated biochar...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 26, 2024
The serious drawback underlying the biological annotation of whole-genome sequence data is the p >> n problem, which means that the number of polymorphic variants (p) is much larger than the number of available phenotypic records (n). We propose a wa...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 25, 2024
Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 variants capable of breakthrough infections have attracted global attention. These variants have significant mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike p...