Altering specificity and autoactivity of plant immune receptors Sr33 and Sr50 via a rational engineering approach

J Tamborski, K Seong, F Liu… - Molecular Plant …, 2023 - Am Phytopath Society
Many resistance genes deployed against pathogens in crops are intracellular nucleotide-
binding (NB) leucine-rich repeat (LRR) receptors (NLRs). The ability to rationally engineer …

[HTML][HTML] Information-driven modeling of biomolecular complexes

CW van Noort, RV Honorato, AMJJ Bonvin - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Proteins play crucial roles in every cellular process by interacting with each other, nucleic
acids, metabolites, and other molecules. The resulting assemblies can be very large and …

Predicting RNA distance-based contact maps by integrated deep learning on physics-inferred secondary structure and evolutionary-derived mutational coupling

J Singh, K Paliwal, T Litfin, J Singh, Y Zhou - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation Recently, AlphaFold2 achieved high experimental accuracy for the
majority of proteins in Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP 14). This raises the …

[HTML][HTML] Using metagenomic data to boost protein structure prediction and discovery

Q Hou, F Pucci, F Pan, F Xue, M Rooman… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, metagenomic sequencing approaches have been providing an ever-
increasing amount of protein sequence data at an astonishing rate. These constitute an …

pycofitness—Evaluating the fitness landscape of RNA and protein sequences

F Pucci, MB Zerihun, M Rooman, A Schug - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The accurate prediction of how mutations change biophysical properties of
proteins or RNA is a major goal in computational biology with tremendous impacts on …

Evolutionary selection of proteins with two folds

JW Schafer, LL Porter - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
Although most globular proteins fold into a single stable structure, an increasing number
have been shown to remodel their secondary and tertiary structures in response to cellular …

Developing and implementing cloud-based tutorials that combine bioinformatics software, interactive coding, and visualization exercises for distance learning on …

F Engelberger, P Galaz-Davison, G Bravo, M Rivera… - 2021 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has swiftly forced a change in learning strategies across
educational institutions, from extensively relying on in-person activities toward online …

PyMEGABASE: predicting cell-type-specific structural annotations of chromosomes using the epigenome

E Dodero-Rojas, MF Mello, S Brahmachari… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
The folding patterns of interphase genomes in higher eukaryotes, as obtained from DNA-
proximity-ligation or Hi-C experiments, are used to classify loci into structural classes called …

Integration of alphafold with molecular dynamics for efficient conformational sampling of transporter protein nark

J Ohnuki, K Okazaki - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
Transporter proteins carry their substrate across the cell membrane by changing their
conformation. Thus, conformational dynamics are crucial for transport function. However …

Enhancing coevolutionary signals in protein–protein interaction prediction through clade-wise alignment integration

T Fang, D Szklarczyk, R Hachilif, C von Mering - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) play essential roles in most biological processes. The
binding interfaces between interacting proteins impose evolutionary constraints that have …