Recent developments in positron emission tomography tracers for proteinopathies imaging in dementia

R Ni, RM Nitsch - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
An early detection and intervention for dementia represent tremendous unmet clinical needs
and priorities in society. A shared feature of neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia …

Role of Molecular Interactions in Supramolecular Polypeptide–Polyphenol Networks for Engineering Functional Materials

Y Han, RPM Lafleur, J Zhou, W Xu, Z Lin… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular assembly affords the development of a wide range of polypeptide-based
biomaterials for drug delivery and nanomedicine. However, there remains a need to develop …

Systems engineering of Escherichia coli for high-level glutarate production from glucose.

Z Zhang, R Chu, W Wei, W Song, C Ye… - Nature …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Glutarate is a key monomer in polyester and polyamide production. The low efficiency of the
current biosynthetic pathways hampers its production by microbial cell factories. Herein …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular docking in the study of ligand-protein recognition: an overview

I Azad - Molecular Docking-Recent Advances, 2023 - intechopen.com
Molecular docking is a bioinformatics-based theoretical simulation strategy. It is employed to
study ligand-protein interaction profiles and predict their binding conformers and affinity …

In silico modeling and scoring of PROTAC-mediated ternary complex poses

J Liao, X Nie, IC Unarta, SS Ericksen… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are molecules that induce protein degradation
via formation of ternary complexes between an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a target protein. The …

A hybrid structure-based machine learning approach for predicting kinase inhibition by small molecules

C Liu, P Kutchukian, ND Nguyen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Kinases have been the focus of drug discovery programs for three decades leading to over
70 therapeutic kinase inhibitors and biophysical affinity measurements for over 130,000 …

Pathways and mechanism of MRTX1133 binding to KRAS G12D elucidated by molecular dynamics simulations and Markov state models

G Tu, Y Gong, X Yao, Q Liu, W Xue, R Zhang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract KRAS G12D is the most common oncogenic mutation identified in several types of
cancer. Therefore, design of inhibitors targeting KRAS G12D represents a promising …

Ligand-induced shifts in conformational ensembles that describe transcriptional activation

SH Khan, SM Braet, SJ Koehler, E Elacqua, GS Anand… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Nuclear receptors function as ligand-regulated transcription factors whose ability to regulate
diverse physiological processes is closely linked with conformational changes induced upon …

Accurate binding configuration prediction of a G-protein-coupled receptor to its antagonist using multicanonical molecular dynamics-based dynamic docking

GJ Bekker, M Araki, K Oshima, Y Okuno… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We have performed dynamic docking between a prototypic G-protein-coupled receptor
(GPCR) system, the β2-adrenergic receptor, and its antagonist, alprenolol, using one of the …

Coenzyme‐binding pathway on glutamate dehydrogenase suggested from multiple‐binding sites visualized by cryo‐electron microscopy

T Wakabayashi, M Oide, T Kato… - The FEBS Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of hexameric glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) in the presence of the
coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) was visualized using …