Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

Machine learning-guided protein engineering

P Kouba, P Kohout, F Haddadi, A Bushuiev… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent progress in engineering highly promising biocatalysts has increasingly involved
machine learning methods. These methods leverage existing experimental and simulation …

Assessing developability early in the discovery process for novel biologics

ML Fernández-Quintero, A Ljungars, F Waibl, V Greiff… - MAbs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Beyond potency, a good developability profile is a key attribute of a biological drug.
Selecting and screening for such attributes early in the drug development process can save …

[HTML][HTML] Computational methods to predict protein aggregation

S Navarro, S Ventura - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
In most cases, protein aggregation stems from the establishment of non-native
intermolecular contacts. The formation of insoluble protein aggregates is associated with …

AMYPred-FRL is a novel approach for accurate prediction of amyloid proteins by using feature representation learning

P Charoenkwan, S Ahmed, C Nantasenamat… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Amyloid proteins have the ability to form insoluble fibril aggregates that have important
pathogenic effects in many tissues. Such amyloidoses are prominently associated with …

Spike Protein Fragments Promote Alzheimer's Amyloidogenesis

S Cao, Z Song, J Rong, N Andrikopoulos… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of dementia inducing memory loss, cognitive
decline, and mortality among the aging population. While the amyloid aggregation of …

Machine learning prediction of antibody aggregation and viscosity for high concentration formulation development of protein therapeutics

PK Lai, A Gallegos, N Mody, HA Sathish, BL Trout - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning has been recently used to predict therapeutic antibody aggregation rates
and viscosity at high concentrations (150 mg/ml). These works focused on commercially …

Exploring new galaxies: Perspectives on the discovery of novel PET-degrading enzymes

J Mican, J Da'san MM, W Liu, G Weber… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a widely used polyester due to its beneficial material
properties and low cost. However, PET contributes significantly to the growing problem of …

How can we discover developable antibody-based biotherapeutics?

J Bauer, N Rajagopal, P Gupta, P Gupta… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Antibody-based biotherapeutics have emerged as a successful class of pharmaceuticals
despite significant challenges and risks to their discovery and development. This review …

AggreProt: a web server for predicting and engineering aggregation prone regions in proteins

J Planas-Iglesias, S Borko, J Swiatkowski… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recombinant proteins play pivotal roles in numerous applications including industrial
biocatalysts or therapeutics. Despite the recent progress in computational protein structure …