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 …

Progress and challenges for the machine learning-based design of fit-for-purpose monoclonal antibodies

R Akbar, H Bashour, P Rawat, PA Robert, E Smorodina… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although the therapeutic efficacy and commercial success of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)
are tremendous, the design and discovery of new candidates remain a time and cost …

Developability assessment at early-stage discovery to enable development of antibody-derived therapeutics

W Zhang, H Wang, N Feng, Y Li, J Gu… - Antibody …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Developability refers to the likelihood that an antibody candidate will become a
manufacturable, safe and efficacious drug. Although the safety and efficacy of a drug …

Pathologic polyglutamine aggregation begins with a self-poisoning polymer crystal

T Kandola, S Venkatesan, J Zhang, BT Lerbakken… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
A long-standing goal of amyloid research has been to characterize the structural basis of the
rate-determining nucleating event. However, the ephemeral nature of nucleation has made …

Protein misfolding and related human diseases: A comprehensive review of toxicity, proteins involved, and current therapeutic strategies

AN Khan, RH Khan - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2022 - Elsevier
Most of the cell's chemical reactions and structural components are facilitated by proteins.
But proteins are highly dynamic molecules, where numerous modifications or changes in the …

Lysozyme amyloid fibril: Regulation, application, hazard analysis, and future perspectives

Y Chen, Q Liu, F Yang, H Yu, Y Xie, W Yao - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-assembly of misfolded proteins into ordered fibrillar aggregates known as amyloid
results in various human diseases. However, more and more proteins, whether in human …

Self-assembling peptides: Structure, function, in silico prediction and applications

A Vahedifar, J Wu - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Food proteins are natural sources of self-assembling peptides (SAPs) which
could form self-assembled nanostructures, including definite (eg, fibrils and nanotubes) and …

Exploring the sequence features determining amyloidosis in human antibody light chains

P Rawat, R Prabakaran, S Kumar, MM Gromiha - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The light chain (AL) amyloidosis is caused by the aggregation of light chain of antibodies
into amyloid fibrils. There are plenty of computational resources available for the prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerating therapeutic protein design with computational approaches toward the clinical stage

Z Chen, X Wang, X Chen, J Huang, C Wang… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Therapeutic protein, represented by antibodies, is of increasing interest in human medicine.
However, clinical translation of therapeutic protein is still largely hindered by different …

Structural, kinetic, and thermodynamic aspects of insulin aggregation

C Panda, S Kumar, S Gupta, LM Pandey - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Given the significance of protein aggregation in proteinopathies and the development of
therapeutic protein pharmaceuticals, revamped interest in assessing and modelling the …