Over the last 15 years, structural biology has seen unprecedented development and improvement in two areas: electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) and predictive modeling. Once relegated to low resolutions, single-particle cryo-EM is now capable of achie...
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Jan 23, 2024
Observed mass shifts associated with deuterium incorporation in hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) frequently deviate from the initial signals due to back and forward exchange. In typical HDX-MS experiments, the impact of these di...
Small proteins (SPs) are a unique group of proteins that play crucial roles in many important biological processes. Exploring the biological function of SPs is necessary. In this study, the InterPro tool and the maximum correlation method were utiliz...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Jan 19, 2024
The structurally sensitive amide II infrared (IR) bands of proteins provide valuable information about the hydrogen bonding of protein secondary structures, which is crucial for understanding protein dynamics and associated functions. However, deciph...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 12, 2024
Protein thermodynamics is intimately tied to biological function and can enable processes such as signal transduction, enzyme catalysis, and molecular recognition. The relative free energies of conformations that contribute to these functional equili...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jan 11, 2024
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have significant regulatory roles in gene expression. Interactions with proteins are one of the ways lncRNAs play their roles. Since experiments to determine lncRNA-protein interactions (LPIs) are expensive and time-con...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jan 11, 2024
The protein S-nitrosylation (SNO) is a significant post-translational modification that affects the stability, activity, cellular localization, and function of proteins. Therefore, highly accurate prediction of SNO sites aids in grasping biological f...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 11, 2024
With the ongoing development of peptide self-assembling materials, there is growing interest in exploring novel functional peptide sequences. From short peptides to long polypeptides, as the functionality increases, the sequence space is also expandi...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jan 10, 2024
One of the main challenges in small molecule drug discovery is finding novel chemical compounds with desirable activity. Traditional drug development typically begins with target selection, but the correlation between targets and disease remains to b...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 7, 2024
A central problem in drug discovery is to identify the interactions between drug-like compounds and protein targets. Over the past few decades, various quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and proteo-chemometric (PCM) approaches have b...
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