Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Oct 10, 2025
Adaptive differences in the thermal stabilities of enzyme structure and function play critical roles in establishing the thermal optima and limits of all organisms. Thus, understanding the mechanisms underlying these adaptations can yield insights in...
Processive endoglucanases, which possess both endo- and exoglucanase activities, are considered highly promising catalysts in cellulose degradation. In this study, we employed multiple deep learning models, including MutCompute, DeepSequence, and ESM...
BACKGROUND: BRAF mutation is the most common genetic change in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Nevertheless, the association between BRAF mutation status and abundance and the biological behavior of PTC is unclear. Thus, this study investigated wh...
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
Jul 1, 2024
Over the years, many computational methods have been created for the analysis of the impact of single amino acid substitutions resulting from single-nucleotide variants in genome coding regions. Historically, all methods have been supervised and thus...
When designing live-attenuated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidates, attenuating mutations can be developed through biologic selection or reverse-genetic manipulation and may include point mutations, codon and gene deletions, and geno...
Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are the workhorse of molecular evolution and structural biology research. From MSAs, the amino acids that are tolerated at each site during protein evolution can be inferred. However, little is known regarding the ...
Single amino acid variation (SAV) is an amino acid substitution of the protein sequence that can potentially influence the entire protein structure or function, as well as its binding affinity. Protein destabilization is related to diseases, includin...
Several studies have linked disruptions of protein stability and its normal functions to disease. Therefore, during the last few decades, many tools have been developed to predict the free energy changes upon protein residue variations. Most of these...
The antigenic diversity of influenza A viruses (IAV) circulating in swine challenges the development of effective vaccines, increasing zoonotic threat and pandemic potential. High-throughput sequencing technologies can quantify IAV genetic diversity,...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Mar 9, 2021
Free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFAR1 or GPR40) has attracted attention for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, and various small-molecule agonists have been developed. However, most FFAR1 agonists as well as endogenous ligands, such as linoleic a...
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