The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 urgently calls for a working therapeutic. Here, we report a computation-based workflow for efficiently selecting a subset of FDA-approved drugs that can potentially bind to the SA...
Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Sep 18, 2020
The metallo-β-lactamase (MβL) superfamily, which is intriguing due to its enzyme promiscuity, is a good model enzyme superfamily for studies of catalytic function evolution. Our previous study traced the evolution of the phosphotriesterase activity o...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jun 1, 2020
A novel coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, was recently found in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China, and now is spreading across China and other parts of the world. Although there are some drugs to treat 2019-nCoV, there is no proper scientific evidence abou...
International journal of molecular sciences
Feb 23, 2020
Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a ubiquitous cytoplasmic enzyme converting glucose-6-phosphate into 6-phosphogluconate in the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). The G6PD deficiency renders the inability to regenerate glutathione due to lack...
Glucose isomerase (GIase), an efficient enzyme in the isomerization of d-glucose to d-fructose, has been widely used in food processing. In this study, an efficient expression system for a Thermobifida fusca GIase (GIase) in Escherichia coli was firs...
International journal of molecular sciences
Nov 11, 2019
The work aiming to unravel the correlation between protein sequence and function in the absence of structural information can be highly rewarding. We present a new way of considering descriptors from the amino acids index database for modeling and pr...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 5, 2019
Here we show that Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) can be used to explore the latent space of the SMILES-based autoencoders and generate focused molecular libraries of interest. We have built a sequence-to-sequence neural network with Bidirection...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Feb 26, 2019
The lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase-1 (GCase) catalyzes the cleavage of a major glycolipid glucosylceramide into glucose and ceramide. The absence of fully functional GCase leads to the accumulation of its lipid substrates in lysosomes, causing G...
BACKGROUND: The family of D-isomer specific 2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenases (2HADHs) contains a wide range of oxidoreductases with various metabolic roles as well as biotechnological applications. Despite a vast amount of biochemical and structural data...
Directed evolution is an important research activity in synthetic biology and biotechnology. Numerous reports describe the application of tedious mutation/screening cycles for the improvement of proteins. Recently, knowledge-based approaches have fac...
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