Although structures determined at near-atomic resolution are now routinely reported by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), many density maps are determined at an intermediate resolution, and extracting structure information from these maps is still a...
BACKGROUND: Protein secondary structure (PSS) is critical to further predict the tertiary structure, understand protein function and design drugs. However, experimental techniques of PSS are time consuming and expensive, and thus it's very urgent to ...
BACKGROUND: Acetylation on lysine is a widespread post-translational modification which is reversible and plays a crucial role in some biological activities. To better understand the mechanism, it is necessary to identify acetylation sites in protein...
Chemical shifts (CS) are determined from NMR experiments and represent the resonance frequency of the spin of atoms in a magnetic field. They contain a mixture of information, encompassing the in-solution conformations a protein adopts, as well as th...
The Gene or DNA sequence in every cell does not control genetic properties on its own; Rather, this is done through the translation of DNA into protein and subsequent formation of a certain 3D structure. The biological function of a protein is tightl...
The ability to predict local structural features of a protein from the primary sequence is of paramount importance for unraveling its function in absence of experimental structural information. Two main factors affect the utility of potential predict...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Feb 26, 2019
The lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase-1 (GCase) catalyzes the cleavage of a major glycolipid glucosylceramide into glucose and ceramide. The absence of fully functional GCase leads to the accumulation of its lipid substrates in lysosomes, causing G...
Protein gamma-turn prediction is useful in protein function studies and experimental design. Several methods for gamma-turn prediction have been developed, but the results were unsatisfactory with Matthew correlation coefficients (MCC) around 0.2-0.4...
Predicting protein structure from sequence alone is challenging. Thus, the majority of methods for protein structure prediction rely on evolutionary information from multiple sequence alignments. In previous work we showed that Long Short-Term Bidire...
Research on cytokine recognition is of great significance in the medical field due to the fact cytokines benefit the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, but the current methods for cytokine recognition have many shortcomings, such as low sensitivity...
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