Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) prediction plays a pivotal role in understanding cellular processes and uncovering molecular mechanisms underlying health and disease. Structure-based PPI prediction has emerged as a robust alternative to sequence-ba...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 16, 2025
Designing chemically novel and synthesizable ligands from the largest possible chemical space is a major issue in modern drug discovery to identify early hits that are easily amenable to medicinal chemistry optimization. Starting from the sole three-...
Molecular recognition events between proteins drive biological processes in living systems. However, higher levels of mechanistic regulation have emerged, in which protein-protein interactions are conditioned to small molecules. Despite recent advanc...
Protein succinylation, a post-translational modification wherein a succinyl group (-CO-CH₂-CH₂-CO-) attaches to lysine residues, plays a critical regulatory role in cellular processes. Dysregulated succinylation has been implicated in the onset and p...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 9, 2025
The accurate identification of protein-nucleotide binding residues is crucial for protein function annotation and drug discovery. Numerous computational methods have been proposed to predict these binding residues, achieving remarkable performance. H...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 8, 2025
Targeted covalent inhibition is a powerful therapeutic modality in the drug discoverer's toolbox. Recent advances in covalent drug discovery, in particular, targeting cysteines, have led to significant breakthroughs for traditionally challenging targ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 7, 2025
Predicting protein-protein interaction (PPI) binding affinities in unseen protein complex clusters is essential for elucidating complex protein interactions and for the targeted screening of peptide- or protein-based drugs. We introduce MCGLPPI++, a ...
Knowing which residues of a protein are important for its function is of paramount importance for understanding the molecular basis of this function and devising ways of modifying it for medical or biotechnological applications. Due to the difficulty...
Synthetic binding proteins (SBPs) are a class of protein binders that are artificially created and do not exist naturally. Their broad applications in tackling challenges of research, diagnostics, and therapeutics have garnered significant interest. ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 3, 2025
The development of machine-learning (ML) potentials offers significant accuracy improvements compared to molecular mechanics (MM) because of the inclusion of quantum-mechanical effects in molecular interactions. However, ML simulations are several ti...