BACKGROUND: Interactions between the immune and metabolic systems may play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome-associated rheumatoid arthritis (MetS-RA). The purpose of this study was to discover candidate biomarkers for the diag...
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology
Jul 23, 2024
This research paper utilizes a fused-in-silico approach alongside bioactivity evaluation to identify active FtsZ inhibitors for drug discovery. Initially, ROC-guided machine learning was employed to obtain almost 13182 compounds from three libraries....
Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology
Jul 20, 2024
The Qingfei Paidu decoction (QFPDD) is a widely acclaimed therapeutic formula employed nationwide for the clinical management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). QFPDD exerts a synergistic therapeutic effect, characterized by its multi-component,...
We describe an approach for designing high-affinity small molecule-binding proteins poised for downstream sensing. We use deep learning-generated pseudocycles with repeating structural units surrounding central binding pockets with widely varying sha...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 17, 2024
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for characterizing ligand-protein conformational dynamics and offers significant advantages over docking and other rigid structure-based computational methods. However, setting up, running, and an...
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences
Jul 12, 2024
A rare metabolic condition called alkaptonuria (AKU) is caused by a decrease in homogentisate 1,2 dioxygenase (HGO) activity due to a mutation in homogentisate dioxygenase (HGD) gene. Homogentisic acid is a byproduct of the catabolism of tyrosine and...
Omics : a journal of integrative biology
Jul 9, 2024
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is a significant planetary health challenge with its high morbidity and mortality rate, not to mention the marked interindividual variability in treatment outcomes and side effects. There is an urgent need for robust system...
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England)
Jul 9, 2024
Renal cell carcinoma is a highly vascular tumor associated with vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression. The Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor -2 (VEGF-2) and its receptor was identified as a potential anti-cancer target, and it plays a...
Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a crucial serine/threonine protein kinase that belongs to the IRAK family and plays a pivotal role in Toll-like receptor (TLR) and Interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) signaling pathways. Due to IRAK4's...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 3, 2024
In drug discovery, molecular docking methods face challenges in accurately predicting energy. Scoring functions used in molecular docking often fail to simulate complex protein-ligand interactions fully and accurately leading to biases and inaccuraci...