Integrative computational modeling of protein interactions

JP Rodrigues, AMJJ Bonvin - The FEBS journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Protein interactions define the homeostatic state of the cell. Our ability to understand these
interactions and their role in both health and disease is tied to our knowledge of the 3D …

Immunoinformatics-aided design of a peptide based multiepitope vaccine targeting glycoproteins and membrane proteins against monkeypox virus

N Akhtar, V Kaushik, RK Grewal, AK Wani… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monkeypox is a self-limiting zoonotic viral disease and causes smallpox-like symptoms. The
disease has a case fatality ratio of 3–6% and, recently, a multi-country outbreak of the …

T cell epitope based vaccine design while targeting outer capsid proteins of rotavirus strains infecting neonates: an immunoinformatics approach

AD Sharma, RK Grewal, S Gorle… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Gastrointestinal diarrhea is majorly caused by the rotavirus (RV) in the children who
generally are under the age group of 5 years. WHO estimates that∼ 95% of the children …

D936Y and other mutations in the fusion core of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein heptad repeat 1: frequency, geographical distribution, and structural effect

R Oliva, AR Shaikh, A Petta, A Vangone, L Cavallo - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The crown of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
constituted by its spike (S) glycoprotein. S protein mediates the SARS-CoV-2 entry into the …

Analysis and ranking of protein-protein docking models using inter-residue contacts and inter-molecular contact maps

R Oliva, E Chermak, L Cavallo - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
In view of the increasing interest both in inhibitors of protein-protein interactions and in
protein drugs themselves, analysis of the three-dimensional structure of protein-protein …

Distinguishing crystallographic from biological interfaces in protein complexes: role of intermolecular contacts and energetics for classification

K Elez, AMJJ Bonvin, A Vangone - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Study of macromolecular assemblies is fundamental to understand functions in
cells. X-ray crystallography is the most common technique to solve their 3D structure at …

Computer-aided molecular modeling and structural analysis of the human centromere protein–HIKM complex

HO Uzoeto, S Cosmas, JN Ajima, AV Arazu… - Beni-Suef University …, 2022 - Springer
Background Protein–peptide and protein–protein interactions play an essential role in
different functional and structural cellular organizational aspects. While Cryo-EM and X-ray …

CONSRANK: a server for the analysis, comparison and ranking of docking models based on inter-residue contacts

E Chermak, A Petta, L Serra, A Vangone… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Herein, we present CONSRANK, a web tool for analyzing, comparing and ranking protein–
protein and protein–nucleic acid docking models, based on the conservation of inter-residue …

A random forest classifier for protein–protein docking models

D Barradas-Bautista, Z Cao, A Vangone… - Bioinformatics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Herein, we present the results of a machine learning approach we developed to single out
correct 3D docking models of protein–protein complexes obtained by popular docking …

MDcons: Intermolecular contact maps as a tool to analyze the interface of protein complexes from molecular dynamics trajectories

S Abdel-Azeim, E Chermak, A Vangone, R Oliva… - BMC …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of protein complexes suffer from
the lack of specific tools in the analysis step. Analyses of MD trajectories of protein …