Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 20, 2025
Predicting drug-target binding affinity (DTA) is a crucial task in drug discovery research. Recent studies have demonstrated that pocket features and interactions between targets and drugs significantly improve the understanding of DTA. However, chal...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 9, 2025
The accurate identification of protein-nucleotide binding residues is crucial for protein function annotation and drug discovery. Numerous computational methods have been proposed to predict these binding residues, achieving remarkable performance. H...
σ serves as an unconventional sigma factor with a distinct mechanism of transcription initiation, which depends on the involvement of a transcription activator. This unique sigma factor σ is indispensable for orchestrating the transcription of genes ...
Knowing which residues of a protein are important for its function is of paramount importance for understanding the molecular basis of this function and devising ways of modifying it for medical or biotechnological applications. Due to the difficulty...
BACKGROUND: Molecular interactions between proteins and their ligands are important for drug design. A pharmacophore consists of favorable molecular interactions in a protein binding site and can be utilized for virtual screening. Pharmacophores are ...
BACKGROUND: Interactions between microRNAs and RNA-binding proteins are crucial for microRNA-mediated gene regulation and sorting. Despite their significance, the molecular mechanisms governing these interactions remain underexplored, apart from sequ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 17, 2024
Accurate identification of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) binding sites is crucial for understanding cellular functions and advancing drug discovery, particularly in targeting kinases for cancer treatment. Existing methods face significant challenges d...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 10, 2024
Kinase inhibitors are an important class of anticancer drugs, with 80 inhibitors clinically approved and >100 in active clinical testing. Most bind competitively in the ATP-binding site, leading to challenges with selectivity for a specific kinase, r...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 10, 2024
The prediction of drug-target affinity (DTA) plays a crucial role in drug development and the identification of potential drug targets. In recent years, computer-assisted DTA prediction has emerged as a significant approach in this field. In this stu...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 10, 2024
Graph neural networks have drawn increasing attention and achieved remarkable progress recently due to their potential applications for a large amount of irregular data. It is a natural way to represent protein as a graph. In this work, we focus on p...
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