Structure formation of membrane proteins is error-prone and thus requires chaperones that oversee this essential process in cell biology. The ER membrane protein complex (EMC) is well-defined as a transmembrane domain (TMD) insertase. In this study, ...
Protein-ligand interactions play central roles in myriad biological processes and are of key importance in drug design. Deep learning approaches are becoming cost-effective alternatives to high-throughput experimental methods for ligand identificatio...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 25, 2025
Machine learning has become an essential tool in computational drug design, enabling models to uncover patterns in molecular data and predict protein-ligand interactions. This study introduces a novel approach by integrating persistence images with M...
The potential for food contact chemicals to disrupt genetic programs in development and metabolism raises concerns. Nuclear receptors (NRs) control many of these programs, and the retinoid-X receptor (RXR) is a DNA-binding partner for one-third of th...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 16, 2025
Scoring biomolecular complexes remains central to structural modeling efforts. Recent studies suggest that AlphaFold (AF) - a revolutionary deep learning model for biomolecular structure prediction - has implicitly learned an approximate biophysical ...
The 4-1BB receptor, a key member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family, represents a highly promising target for cancer immunotherapy. In this study, we developed a novel in silico pipeline to design VHH domain antibodies targeting 4-1B...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 13, 2025
Identifying orthosteric binding sites and predicting small molecule affinities remains a key challenge in virtual screening. While blind docking explores the entire protein surface, its precision is hindered by the vast search space. Cavity detection...
Iron is an essential nutrient for most bacteria and is often growth-limiting during infection, due to the host sequestering free iron as part of the innate immune response. To obtain the iron required for growth, many bacterial pathogens encode trans...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 8, 2025
Mutations in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) have been widely observed in various tumors, such as gliomas and acute myeloid leukemia, and therefore has become one of the current research focal points. Therefore, it is crucial to find inhibitors tha...
High-throughput screening for inhibitors of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) provides vital information for therapeutic intervention in diseases driven by aberrant PPIs. Traditionally, the discovery of PPI inhibitors involves sequential steps: in ...
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