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 …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide and peptide-based inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 entry

D Schütz, YB Ruiz-Blanco, J Münch, F Kirchhoff… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
To date, no effective vaccines or therapies are available against the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative pandemic agent of the coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells

S Temmam, K Vongphayloth, E Baquero, S Munier… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is unknown despite reports of SARS-CoV-2-related
viruses in Asian Rhinolophus bats,,–, including the closest virus from R. affinis, RaTG13 …

[HTML][HTML] Mega-scale experimental analysis of protein folding stability in biology and design

K Tsuboyama, J Dauparas, J Chen, E Laine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in DNA sequencing and machine learning are providing insights into protein
sequences and structures on an enormous scale. However, the energetics driving folding …

Learning protein fitness models from evolutionary and assay-labeled data

C Hsu, H Nisonoff, C Fannjiang, J Listgarten - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning-based models of protein fitness typically learn from either
unlabeled, evolutionarily related sequences or variant sequences with experimentally …

Mutations strengthened SARS-CoV-2 infectivity

J Chen, R Wang, M Wang, GW Wei - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectivity is a major
concern in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention and economic reopening …

[HTML][HTML] Individual bat virome analysis reveals co-infection and spillover among bats and virus zoonotic potential

J Wang, Y Pan, L Yang, W Yang, K Lv, C Luo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bats are reservoir hosts for many zoonotic viruses. Despite this, relatively little is known
about the diversity and abundance of viruses within individual bats, and hence the …

[HTML][HTML] ECNet is an evolutionary context-integrated deep learning framework for protein engineering

Y Luo, G Jiang, T Yu, Y Liu, L Vo, H Ding, Y Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning has been increasingly used for protein engineering. However,
because the general sequence contexts they capture are not specific to the protein being …

DDMut: predicting effects of mutations on protein stability using deep learning

Y Zhou, Q Pan, DEV Pires… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the effects of mutations on protein stability is crucial for variant interpretation
and prioritisation, protein engineering, and biotechnology. Despite significant efforts …

DynaMut: predicting the impact of mutations on protein conformation, flexibility and stability

CHM Rodrigues, DEV Pires… - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Proteins are highly dynamic molecules, whose function is intrinsically linked to their
molecular motions. Despite the pivotal role of protein dynamics, their computational …