Protein-ligand interactions are the molecular basis of many important cellular activities, such as gene regulation, cell metabolism, and signal transduction. Protein-ligand binding affinity is a crucial metric of the strength of the interaction betwe...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 19, 2024
Helices are important secondary structural motifs within proteins and are pivotal in numerous physiological processes. While amino acids (AA) such as alanine and leucine are known to promote helix formation, proline and glycine disfavor it. Helical s...
Much of the human genome is transcribed into RNAs, many of which contain structural elements that are important for their function. Such RNA molecules-including those that are structured and well-folded-are conformationally heterogeneous and flexible...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Dec 10, 2024
AlphaFold2 has achieved a major breakthrough in end-to-end prediction for static protein structures. However, protein conformational change is considered to be a key factor in protein biological function. Inter-residue multiple distances prediction i...
Efficiently predicting the paratope holds immense potential for enhancing antibody design, treating cancers and other serious diseases, and advancing personalized medicine. Although traditional methods are highly accurate, they are often time-consumi...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 24, 2024
Graphs are one of the most natural and powerful representations available for molecules; natural because they have an intuitive correspondence to skeletal formulas, the language used by chemists worldwide, and powerful, because they are highly expres...
Accurate prediction of RNA three-dimensional (3D) structures remains an unsolved challenge. Determining RNA 3D structures is crucial for understanding their functions and informing RNA-targeting drug development and synthetic biology design. The stru...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 18, 2024
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are crucial for understanding biological processes and disease mechanisms, contributing significantly to advances in protein engineering and drug discovery. The accurate determination of binding affinities, essenti...
Peptides are an emerging modality for developing therapeutics that can either agonize or antagonize cellular pathways associated with disease, yet peptides often suffer from poor chemical and physical stability, which limits their potential. However,...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 15, 2024
Global optimization of the structure of atomic nanoparticles is often hampered by the presence of many funnels on the potential energy surface. While broad funnels are readily encountered and easily exploited by the search, narrow funnels are more di...
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