Artificial intelligence challenges for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability

F Pucci, M Schwersensky, M Rooman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Stability is a key ingredient of protein fitness, and its modification through targeted mutations
has applications in various fields, such as protein engineering, drug design, and deleterious …

Machine learning in enzyme engineering

S Mazurenko, Z Prokop, J Damborsky - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enzyme engineering plays a central role in developing efficient biocatalysts for
biotechnology, biomedicine, and life sciences. Apart from classical rational design and …

Predicting the stability of mutant proteins by computational approaches: an overview

A Marabotti, B Scafuri, A Facchiano - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A very large number of computational methods to predict the change in thermodynamic
stability of proteins due to mutations have been developed during the last 30 years, and …

Predicting changes in protein thermodynamic stability upon point mutation with deep 3D convolutional neural networks

B Li, YT Yang, JA Capra… - PLoS computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Predicting mutation-induced changes in protein thermodynamic stability (ΔΔG) is of great
interest in protein engineering, variant interpretation, and protein biophysics. We introduce …

FireProt 2.0: web-based platform for the fully automated design of thermostable proteins

M Musil, A Jezik, J Horackova, S Borko… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Thermostable proteins find their use in numerous biomedical and biotechnological
applications. However, the computational design of stable proteins often results in single …

Quantification of biases in predictions of protein stability changes upon mutations

F Pucci, KV Bernaerts, JM Kwasigroch… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Bioinformatics tools that predict protein stability changes upon point mutations
have made a lot of progress in the last decades and have become accurate and fast enough …

Predicting protein thermal stability changes upon point mutations using statistical potentials: Introducing HoTMuSiC

F Pucci, R Bourgeas, M Rooman - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The accurate prediction of the impact of an amino acid substitution on the thermal stability of
a protein is a central issue in protein science, and is of key relevance for the rational …

Systematic investigation of the data set dependency of protein stability predictors

O Caldararu, R Mehra, TL Blundell… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Prediction of protein stability changes caused by mutation is of major importance to protein
engineering and for understanding protein misfolding diseases and protein evolution. The …

Improving the accuracy of protein thermostability predictions for single point mutations

J Duan, D Lupyan, L Wang - Biophysical Journal, 2020 - cell.com
Accurately predicting the protein thermostability changes upon single point mutations in
silico is a challenge that has implications for understanding diseases as well as industrial …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction and evolution of the molecular fitness of SARS-CoV-2 variants: introducing SpikePro

F Pucci, M Rooman - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the fitness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
and its mutational evolution is still a critical issue. We built a simplified computational model …