Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jan 1, 2025
Computational methods to predict binding affinity of protein-ligand complex have been used extensively to design inhibitors for proteins selected as drug targets. In recent years machine learning (ML) is being increasingly used for design of drugs/in...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Sep 1, 2024
Disulfide bonds, covalently formed by sulfur atoms in cysteine residues, play a crucial role in protein folding and structure stability. Considering their significance, artificial disulfide bonds are often introduced to enhance protein thermostabilit...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Aug 1, 2024
Antibiotic resistance is recognized as an imminent and growing global health threat. New antimicrobial drugs are urgently needed due to the decreasing effectiveness of conventional small-molecule antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), a class of...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Aug 1, 2024
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) crystallography is one of the main methods in structural biology for analyzing protein stereochemistry and structure. The chemical shift of the resonance frequency reflects the effect of the protons in a molecule prod...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jul 1, 2024
Antimicrobial resistance is a critical public health concern, necessitating the exploration of alternative treatments. While antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) show promise, assessing their toxicity using traditional wet lab methods is both time-consuming...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jul 1, 2024
Knotted proteins, although scarce, are crucial structural components of certain protein families, and their roles continue to be a topic of intense research. Capitalizing on the vast collection of protein structure predictions offered by AlphaFold (A...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jun 1, 2024
Prokaryotic DNA binding proteins (DBPs) play pivotal roles in governing gene regulation, DNA replication, and various cellular functions. Accurate computational models for predicting prokaryotic DBPs hold immense promise in accelerating the discovery...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jun 1, 2024
The identification of an effective inhibitor is an important starting step in drug development. Unfortunately, many issues such as the characterization of protein binding sites, the screening library, materials for assays, etc., make drug screening a...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Jun 1, 2024
Inteins are proteins that excise themselves out of host proteins and ligate the flanking polypeptides in an auto-catalytic process called protein splicing. In nature, inteins are either contiguous or split. In the case of split inteins, the two fragm...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Apr 1, 2024
We present a web server that predicts the far-UV circular dichroism (CD) spectra of proteins by utilizing their three-dimensional (3D) structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The main algorithm is based on the classical theory of optical activit...