Integrated computational approaches and tools for allosteric drug discovery

O Sheik Amamuddy, W Veldman, C Manyumwa… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding molecular mechanisms underlying the complexity of allosteric regulation in
proteins has attracted considerable attention in drug discovery due to the benefits and …

PPARγ and diabetes: beyond the genome and towards personalized medicine

S Cataldi, V Costa, A Ciccodicola, M Aprile - Current Diabetes Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Full and partial synthetic agonists targeting the transcription
factor PPARγ are contained in FDA-approved insulin-sensitizing drugs and used for the …

Eigenvector centrality for characterization of protein allosteric pathways

CFA Negre, UN Morzan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Determining the principal energy-transfer pathways responsible for allosteric communication
in biomolecules remains challenging, partially due to the intrinsic complexity of the systems …

Protospacer adjacent motif-induced allostery activates CRISPR-Cas9

G Palermo, CG Ricci, A Fernando… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
CRISPR-Cas9 is a genome editing technology with major impact in life sciences. In this
system, the endonuclease Cas9 generates double strand breaks in DNA upon RNA-guided …

Striking plasticity of CRISPR-Cas9 and key role of non-target DNA, as revealed by molecular simulations

G Palermo, Y Miao, RC Walker, M Jinek… - ACS central …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas9 system
recently emerged as a transformative genome-editing technology that is innovating basic …

Key role of the REC lobe during CRISPR–Cas9 activation by 'sensing','regulating', and 'locking'the catalytic HNH domain

G Palermo, JS Chen, CG Ricci, I Rivalta… - Quarterly reviews of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Understanding the conformational dynamics of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeat)–Cas9 is of the utmost importance for improving its genome editing …

Turning up the heat mimics allosteric signaling in imidazole-glycerol phosphate synthase

F Maschietto, UN Morzan, F Tofoleanu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Allosteric drugs have the potential to revolutionize biomedicine due to their enhanced
selectivity and protection against overdosage. However, we need to better understand …

Allosteric regulation at the crossroads of new technologies: multiscale modeling, networks, and machine learning

GM Verkhivker, S Agajanian, G Hu… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Allosteric regulation is a common mechanism employed by complex biomolecular systems
for regulation of activity and adaptability in the cellular environment, serving as an effective …

Integration of network models and evolutionary analysis into high-throughput modeling of protein dynamics and allosteric regulation: theory, tools and applications

Z Liang, GM Verkhivker, G Hu - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Proteins are dynamical entities that undergo a plethora of conformational changes,
accomplishing their biological functions. Molecular dynamics simulation and normal mode …

Decrypting the information exchange pathways across the spliceosome machinery

A Saltalamacchia, L Casalino, J Borisek… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Intron splicing of a nascent mRNA transcript by spliceosome (SPL) is a hallmark of gene
regulation in eukaryotes. SPL is a majestic molecular machine composed of an entangled …