Protein missense mutations and resulting protein stability changes are important causes for many human genetic diseases. However, the accurate prediction of stability changes due to mutations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jan 29, 2024
Amino acid mutations that lower a protein's thermodynamic stability are implicated in numerous diseases, and engineered proteins with enhanced stability can be important in research and medicine. Computational methods for predicting how mutations per...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 2, 2024
Protein thermodynamic stability is essential to clarify the relationships among structure, function, and interaction. Therefore, developing a faster and more accurate method to predict the impact of the mutations on protein stability is helpful for p...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 1, 2023
Enhancing protein thermal stability is important for biomedical and industrial applications as well as in the research laboratory. Here, we describe a simple machine-learning method which identifies amino acid substitutions that contribute to thermal...
Predicting protein stability change upon variation through a computational approach is a valuable tool to unveil the mechanisms of mutation-induced drug failure and develop immunotherapy strategies. Some previous machine learning-based techniques exh...
Predicting the thermodynamic stability of proteins is a common and widely used step in protein engineering, and when elucidating the molecular mechanisms behind evolution and disease. Here, we present RaSP, a method for making rapid and accurate pred...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 18, 2023
Proteins are essential macromolecules that carry out a plethora of biological functions. The thermal stability of proteins is an important property that affects their function and determines their suitability for various applications. However, curren...
Engineered proteins generally must possess a stable structure in order to achieve their designed function. Stable designs, however, are astronomically rare within the space of all possible amino acid sequences. As a consequence, many designs must be ...
Metalloproteins are a family of proteins characterized by metal ion binding, whereby the presence of these ions confers key catalytic and ligand-binding properties. Due to their ubiquity among biological systems, researchers have made immense efforts...
Current opinion in structural biology
Dec 15, 2021
Stability is a key ingredient of protein fitness, and its modification through targeted mutations has applications in various fields, such as protein engineering, drug design, and deleterious variant interpretation. Many studies have been devoted ove...
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