Understanding protein structures can facilitate the development of therapeutic drugs. Traditionally, protein structures have been determined through experimental approaches such as X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and cryo-electron microscopy...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 13, 2025
Protein evolution has shaped enzymes that maintain stability and function across diverse thermal environments. While sequence variation, thermal stability and conformational dynamics are known to influence an enzyme's thermal adaptation, how these fa...
Current opinion in structural biology
Mar 12, 2025
Recent years have seen tremendous developments in the use of machine learning models to link amino-acid sequence, structure, and function of folded proteins. These methods are, however, rarely applicable to the wide range of proteins and sequences th...
Protein sequence design is a highly challenging task, aimed at discovering new proteins that are more functional and producible under laboratory conditions than their natural counterparts. Deep learning-based approaches developed to address this prob...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 21, 2025
Large Language Models for proteins, namely protein Language Models (pLMs), have begun to provide an important alternative to capturing the information encoded in a protein sequence in computers. Arguably, pLMs have advanced importantly to understandi...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 21, 2025
Proteins are inherently dynamic, and their conformational ensembles play a crucial role in biological function. Large-scale motions may govern the protein structure-function relationship, and numerous transient but stable conformations of intrinsical...
Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 20, 2025
Deep generative models that learn from the distribution of natural protein sequences and structures may enable the design of new proteins with valuable functions. While the majority of today's models focus on generating either sequences or structures...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 14, 2025
Recent studies have reported long-range charge transport in peptide- and protein-based fibers and wires, rendering this class of materials as promising charge-conducting interfaces between biological systems and electronic devices. In the complex mol...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Feb 14, 2025
Understanding the dynamic evolution of protein structures is crucial for uncovering their biological functions. Yet, real-time prediction of these dynamic structures remains a significant challenge. Two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy is a p...
The decomposition of a biomolecular complex into domains is an important step to investigate biological functions and ease structure determination. A successful approach to do so is the SPECTRUS algorithm, which provides a segmentation based on spect...
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