Understanding SARS-CoV-2 human protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and the host response to infection is essential for developing effective COVID-19 antivirals. However, how the ancestral virus and its variants remodel virus-host protein assemblies i...
Proteases recognize substrates by decoding sequence information-an essential cellular process elusive when recognition motifs are absent. Here, we unravel this problem for γ-secretase, an intramembrane-cleaving protease associated with Alzheimer's di...
Class Ι major histocompatibility complexes (MHC-Ι), encoded by the highly polymorphic HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-C genes in humans, are expressed on all nucleated cells. Both self and foreign proteins are processed to peptides of 8-10 amino acids, loaded ...
The global pandemic, due to the emergence of COVID-19, has created a public health crisis. It has a huge morbidity rate that was never comprehended in the recent decades. Despite numerous efforts, potent antiviral drugs are lacking. Repurposing of dr...
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Jun 24, 2025
Recurrent neural networks underwent reinforcement procedures for generation of peptide binders with desired properties. Docking and scoring of peptides from these models allowed enrichment of focused sets with validated sequences for iterative fine-...
Combinatorial control by transcription factors (TFs) is central to eukaryotic gene regulation, yet its mechanism, evolution, and regulatory impact are not well understood. Here we use natural variation in the yeast phosphate starvation (PHO) response...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 2, 2025
The black-box nature of deep learning has increasingly drawn attention to the reliability and uncertainty of predictive models. Currently, several uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods have been proposed and successfully applied in the fields of mo...
International journal of biological macromolecules
May 30, 2025
MRGPRX1 plays dual roles in mediating nociception and pruritus, making it a promising target for alleviating itch and inhibiting pain. However, the mechanisms underlying MRGPRX1 activation and allosteric modulation remain poorly understood, posing si...
International journal of biological macromolecules
May 30, 2025
The present work shows a computational approach to assess the interactions of different nature-inspired peptides with hair keratin models. An updated keratin model was validated, and comparisons with previous models were traced, thereby highlighting ...
Despite the recent breakthrough of AlphaFold (AF) in the field of protein sequence-to-structure prediction, modeling protein interfaces and predicting protein complex structures remains challenging, especially when there is a significant conformation...
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