International journal of biological macromolecules
Feb 19, 2025
Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) possesses significant potential in agriculture, industry, and the treatment of various diseases, including cancer. In particular, PAL derived from Anabaena variabilis (AvPAL) has been successfully utilized in clinica...
Magnaporthe oryzae stands as a notorious fungal pathogen responsible for causing devastating blast disease in cereals, leading to substantial reductions in grain production. Despite the usage of chemical fungicides to combat the pathogen, their effec...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 17, 2025
Starting from Merck Molecular Force Field (MMFF) geometries, a neural-net based model has been formulated to closely reproduce ωB97X-D/6-31G* equilibrium geometries for organic molecules. The model involves training to >6 million energy and force cal...
Penicillin-binding protein 4 (PBP4) is essential in imparting significant β-lactam antibiotics resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and the mutation R200L in PBP4 is linked to β-lactam non-susceptibility in natural strains, complicating tr...
Interest in HDAC3 inhibitors (HDAC3i) for pharmacological applications outside of cancer is growing. However, concerns regarding the possible mutagenicity of the commonly used hydroxamates (zinc-binding groups, ZBGs) are also increasing. Considering ...
New drug development is a very challenging, expensive, and usually time-consuming process. This issue is very important with regard to antimicrobials, which are affected by the global issue of the development and spread of resistance. This framework ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 14, 2025
Recent studies have reported long-range charge transport in peptide- and protein-based fibers and wires, rendering this class of materials as promising charge-conducting interfaces between biological systems and electronic devices. In the complex mol...
Motivated by recent deep mutational scanning (DMS) experiments, we have carried out a diverse set of computations to better understand the distribution and contributions of allostery hotspot residues in a transcription factor, TetR. These include ext...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 11, 2025
Accurate prediction of molecular geometries is crucial for drug discovery and materials science. Existing fast conformer prediction algorithms often rely on approximate empirical energy functions, resulting in low accuracy. More accurate methods like...
This review highlights recent advances in AI-driven methods for generating Boltzmann-weighted structural ensembles, which are crucial for understanding biomolecular dynamics and drug discovery. With the rise of deep learning models such as AlphaFold2...
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