AIMC Topic: Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical

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TMSEG: Novel prediction of transmembrane helices.

Proteins
Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) are important drug targets because they are essential for signaling, regulation, and transport. Despite important breakthroughs, experimental structure determination remains challenging for TMPs. Various methods have bri...

OMPcontact: An Outer Membrane Protein Inter-Barrel Residue Contact Prediction Method.

Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology
In the two transmembrane protein types, outer membrane proteins (OMPs) perform diverse important biochemical functions, including substrate transport and passive nutrient uptake and intake. Hence their 3D structures are expected to reveal these funct...

HelixGAN a deep-learning methodology for conditional de novo design of α-helix structures.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
MOTIVATION: Protein and peptide engineering has become an essential field in biomedicine with therapeutics, diagnostics and synthetic biology applications. Helices are both abundant structural feature in proteins and comprise a major portion of bioac...

Computational Approaches for Investigating Disease-causing Mutations in Membrane Proteins: Database Development, Analysis and Prediction.

Current topics in medicinal chemistry
Membrane proteins (MPs) play an essential role in a broad range of cellular functions, serving as transporters, enzymes, receptors, and communicators, and about ~60% of membrane proteins are primarily used as drug targets. These proteins adopt either...

DeepDTAF: a deep learning method to predict protein-ligand binding affinity.

Briefings in bioinformatics
Biomolecular recognition between ligand and protein plays an essential role in drug discovery and development. However, it is extremely time and resource consuming to determine the protein-ligand binding affinity by experiments. At present, many comp...

Accurate prediction of inter-protein residue-residue contacts for homo-oligomeric protein complexes.

Briefings in bioinformatics
Protein-protein interactions play a fundamental role in all cellular processes. Therefore, determining the structure of protein-protein complexes is crucial to understand their molecular mechanisms and develop drugs targeting the protein-protein inte...

Computational studies of anaplastic lymphoma kinase mutations reveal common mechanisms of oncogenic activation.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Kinases play important roles in diverse cellular processes, including signaling, differentiation, proliferation, and metabolism. They are frequently mutated in cancer and are the targets of a large number of specific inhibitors. Surveys of cancer gen...

Computational Ion Channel Research: from the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology
Although ion channels are crucial in many physiological processes and constitute an important class of drug targets, much is still unclear about their function and possible malfunctions that lead to diseases. In recent years, computational methods ha...

The PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench: 20 years on.

Nucleic acids research
The PSIPRED Workbench is a web server offering a range of predictive methods to the bioscience community for 20 years. Here, we present the work we have completed to update the PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench and make it ready for the next 20 year...

mCSM-PPI2: predicting the effects of mutations on protein-protein interactions.

Nucleic acids research
Protein-protein Interactions are involved in most fundamental biological processes, with disease causing mutations enriched at their interfaces. Here we present mCSM-PPI2, a novel machine learning computational tool designed to more accurately predic...