To understand the mechanism for assembly of Lys-linked polyubiquitin degradation signals, we previously demonstrated that the E6AP/UBE3A ligase harbors two functionally distinct E2∼ubiquitin-binding sites: a high-affinity Site 1 required for E6AP Cys...
Engineering of GPCR constructs with improved thermostability is a key for successful structural and biochemical studies of this transmembrane protein family, targeted by 40% of all therapeutic drugs. Here we introduce a comprehensive computational ap...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
29953819
HIV resistance emerging against antiretroviral drugs represents a great threat to the continued prolongation of the lifespans of HIV-infected patients. Therefore, methods capable of predicting resistance susceptibility in the development of compounds...
The genes that are required for organismal survival are annotated as 'essential genes'. Identifying all the essential genes of an animal species can reveal critical functions that are needed during the development of the organism. To inform studies o...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
30759982
Accurately predicting changes in protein stability due to mutations is important for protein engineering and for understanding the functional consequences of missense mutations in proteins. We have developed DeepDDG, a neural network-based method, fo...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
30946675
The engineering of stable proteins is crucial for various industrial purposes. Several machine learning methods have been developed to predict changes in the stability of proteins corresponding to single point mutations. To improve the prediction acc...
Accurate prediction of protein stability changes resulting from amino acid substitutions is of utmost importance in medicine to better understand which mutations are deleterious, leading to diseases, and which are neutral. Since conducting wet lab ex...
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
32124310
Identification of somatic mutations in tumor tissue is challenged by both technical artifacts, diverse somatic mutational processes, and genetic heterogeneity in the tumors. Indeed, recent independent benchmark studies have revealed low concordance b...
There is increasing interest in developing diagnostics that discriminate individual mutagenic mechanisms in a range of applications that include identifying population-specific mutagenesis and resolving distinct mutation signatures in cancer samples....
Millions of somatic mutations have recently been discovered in cancer genomes. These mutations in cancer genomes occur due to internal and external mutagenesis forces. Decoding the mutational processes by examining their unique patterns has successfu...