Epitopes and mimotopes identification using phage display for vaccine development against infectious pathogens

M Palma - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traditional vaccines use inactivated or weakened forms of pathogens which could have side
effects and inadequate immune responses. To overcome these challenges, phage display …

A core network in the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid NTD mediates structural integrity and selective RNA-binding

K Dhamotharan, SM Korn, A Wacker… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein is indispensable for viral RNA genome processing.
Although the N-terminal domain (NTD) is suggested to mediate specific RNA-interactions …

Optimized parallelization of boundary integral Poisson-Boltzmann solvers

X Yang, E Sliheet, R Iriye, D Reynolds… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model governs the electrostatics of solvated
biomolecules, ie, potential, field, energy, and force. These quantities can provide useful …

G-quadruplex-forming small RNA inhibits coronavirus and influenza A virus replication

R Sekine, K Takeda, T Suenaga, S Tsuno… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Future pandemic threats may be caused by novel coronaviruses and influenza A viruses.
Here we show that when directly added to a cell culture, 12mer guanine RNA (G12) and its …

Epitopes recognition of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid RNA binding domain by human monoclonal antibodies

Y Kim, N Maltseva, C Tesar, R Jedrzejczak, M Endres… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Coronavirus nucleocapsid protein (NP) of SARS-CoV-2 plays a central role in many
functions important for virus proliferation including packaging and protecting genomic RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Affinity Tag-Free Purification of SARS-CoV-2 N Protein and Its Crystal Structure in Complex with ssDNA

A Maiti, H Matsuo - Biomolecules, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The nucleocapsid (N) protein is one of the four structural proteins in SARS-CoV-2, playing
key roles in viral assembly, immune evasion, and stability. One of its primary functions is to …

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M Palma - 2023 - researchgate.net
Traditional vaccines use inactivated or weakened forms of pathogens which could have side
effects and inadequate immune responses. To overcome these challenges, phage display …

Computing Electrostatics of COVID-19 Proteins with Parallelized Boundary Integral Poisson-Boltzmann Solvers

X Yang, E Sliheet, R Iriye, D Reynolds… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model governs the electrostatics of solvated biomolecules, ie,
potential, field, energy, and force. These quantities can provide useful information about …

Predicting Biomolecular Properties and Interactions Using Numerical, Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

E Sliheet - 2024 - scholar.smu.edu
We investigate machine learning and electrostatic methods to predict biophysical properties
of proteins, such as solvation energy and protein ligand binding affinity, for the purpose of …

Structures of Natural and Strategic Mutants reveal a Core Network crucial for Integrity of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid NTD

A Schlundt, K Dhamotharan, S Korn, A Wacker… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein is indispensable for processing of the viral RNA
genome. The N-terminal domain (NTD) was suggested to mediate specific RNA-interactions …