DoubleHelix: nucleic acid sequence identification, assignment and validation tool for cryo-EM and crystal structure models

G Chojnowski - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sequence assignment is a key step of the model building process in both cryogenic electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) and macromolecular crystallography (MX). If the assignment fails, it …

Novel chimeric proteins mimicking SARS-CoV-2 spike epitopes with broad inhibitory activity

M Cano-Muñoz, D Polo-Megías… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein mediates virus attachment to the cells and fusion
between viral and cell membranes. Membrane fusion is driven by mutual interaction …

The Legionella collagen-like protein employs a distinct binding mechanism for the recognition of host glycosaminoglycans

S Rehman, AK Antonovic, IE McIntire, H Zheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacterial adhesion is a fundamental process which enables colonisation of niche
environments and is key for infection. However, in Legionella pneumophila, the causative …

RNA and RNA-protein complexes Principles of ion binding to RNA inferred from the analysis of a 1.55 Å resolution bacterial ribosome structure - Part I: Mg2+

F Leonarski, A Henning-Knechtel… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - cnrs.hal.science
The importance of Mg 2+ ions for RNA structure and function cannot be overstated. Several
attempts were made to establish a comprehensive Mg 2+ binding motif classification …

[HTML][HTML] TRBP2, a Major Component of the RNAi Machinery, Is Subjected to Cell Cycle-Dependent Regulation in Human Cancer Cells of Diverse Tissue Origin

EI Theotoki, P Kakoulidis, AD Velentzas… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Abstract Background: Transactivation Response Element RNA-binding Protein (TRBP2) is a
double-stranded RNA-binding protein widely known for its critical contribution to RNA …

RNA oligomers at atomic resolution containing 1‐methylpseudouridine, an essential building block of mRNA vaccines

P Nievergelt, F Berliat, KE McAuley… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
All widely used mRNA vaccines against COVID‐19 contain in their sequence 1‐
methylpseudouridine (m1Ψ) instead of uridine. In this publication, we report two high …

AQuaRef: Machine learning accelerated quantum refinement of protein structures

R Zubatyuk, M Biczysko, K Ranasinghe, NW Moriarty… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography provide crucial experimental data for obtaining atomic-
detail models of biomacromolecules. Refining these models relies on library-based …

[HTML][HTML] The Legionella collagen-like protein employs a unique binding mechanism for the recognition of host glycosaminoglycans

S Rehman, AK Antonovic, IE McIntire, H Zheng… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bacterial adhesion is a fundamental process which enables colonisation of niche
environments and is key for infection. However, in Legionella pneumophila, the causative …

PDB‐REDO in Computational‐Aided Drug Design (CADD)

I de Vries, A Perrakis, RP Joosten - Open Access Databases …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The PDB‐REDO databank (https://pdb‐redo. eu) is a publicly available repository of
optimized crystallographic macromolecular structure models from the Protein Data Bank …

Comparative structural insights and functional analysis for the distinct unbound states of Human AGO proteins

P Kakoulidis, E Theotoki, V Pantazopoulou, I Vlachos… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
The four human Argonaute (AGO) proteins, essential in RNA interference and gene
regulation, exhibit high sequence and structural similarity, yet differ functionally. Our …