Short hydrogen bonds (SHBs), whose donor and acceptor heteroatoms lie within 2.7 Å, exhibit prominent quantum mechanical characters and are connected to a wide range of essential biomolecular processes. However, exact determination of the geometry an...
Current opinion in structural biology
Dec 23, 2021
Proteins interact through their interfaces to fulfill essential functions in the cell. They bind to their partners in a highly specific manner and form complexes that have a profound effect on understanding the biological pathways they are involved i...
BACKGROUND: Proteins are the workforce of the cell and their phosphorylation status tailors specific responses efficiently. One of the main challenges of phosphoproteomic approaches is to deconvolute biological processes that specifically respond to ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 8, 2021
Protein fold recognition is critical for studies of the protein structure prediction and drug design. Several methods have been proposed to obtain discriminative features from the protein sequences for fold recognition. However, the ensemble methods ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 8, 2021
Protein Secondary Structural Class (PSSC) information is important in investigating further challenges of protein sequences like protein fold recognition, protein tertiary structure prediction, and analysis of protein functions for drug discovery. Id...
International journal of molecular sciences
Dec 4, 2021
Umami ingredients have been identified as important factors in food seasoning and production. Traditional experimental methods for characterizing peptides exhibiting umami sensory properties (umami peptides) are time-consuming, laborious, and costly....
Defensins are host defense peptides present in nearly all living species, which play a crucial role in innate immunity. These peptides provide protection to the host, either by killing microbes directly or indirectly by activating the immune system. ...
International journal of molecular sciences
Nov 13, 2021
As major components of spider venoms, neurotoxic peptides exhibit structural diversity, target specificity, and have great pharmaceutical potential. Deep learning may be an alternative to the laborious and time-consuming methods for identifying these...
International journal of molecular sciences
Nov 12, 2021
Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) play important roles in cells, ranging from transport processes and cell adhesion to communication. Many of these functions are mediated by intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), flexible protein segments without a wel...
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