Chemical mutagenesis-driven forward genetic screens are pivotal in unveiling gene functions, yet identifying causal mutations behind phenotypes remains laborious, hindering their high-throughput application. Here, we reveal a non-uniform mutation rat...
International journal of biological macromolecules
Aug 5, 2024
Enhancing the thermostability of enzymes is crucial for industrial applications. Methods such as directed evolution are often limited by the huge sequence space and combinatorial explosion, making it difficult to obtain optimal mutants. In recent yea...
Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP
Aug 25, 2023
The Ames assay is required by the regulatory agencies worldwide to assess the mutagenic potential risk of consumer products. As well as this in vitro assay, in silico approaches have been widely used to predict Ames test results as outlined in the In...
The Ames test is a gold standard mutagenicity assay that utilizes various strains with and without S9 fraction to provide insights into the mechanisms by which a chemical can mutate DNA. Multitask deep learning is an ideal framework for developing Q...
Metastatic propagation is the leading cause of death for most cancers. Prediction and elucidation of metastatic process is crucial for the treatment of cancer. Even though somatic mutations have been linked to tumorigenesis and metastasis, it is less...
Predicting the thermodynamic stability of proteins is a common and widely used step in protein engineering, and when elucidating the molecular mechanisms behind evolution and disease. Here, we present RaSP, a method for making rapid and accurate pred...
Mutation research. Genetic toxicology and environmental mutagenesis
Dec 1, 2018
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO-NPs) are widely used in the cosmetics, health, and food industries, but their safety and genotoxicity remain a matter of debate. We investigated whether TiO-NPs could induce gene mutations in mouse lymphoma L5178Y ...
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) is a phenomenon of clonal expansion of hematopoietic stem cells driven by somatic mutations affecting certain genes. Recently, CH has been linked to the development of hematologic malignancies, cardiovascular diseases, and o...
SUMMARY: The increasing development of sequence-based machine learning models has raised the demand for manipulating sequences for this application. However, existing approaches to edit and evaluate genome sequences using models have limitations, suc...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 26, 2022
The Ames mutagenicity test constitutes the most frequently used assay to estimate the mutagenic potential of drug candidates. While this test employs experimental results using various strains of , the vast majority of the published in silico models ...