Improving peptide-protein docking with AlphaFold-Multimer using forced sampling

I Johansson-Åkhe, B Wallner - Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Protein interactions are key in vital biological processes. In many cases, particularly in
regulation, this interaction is between a protein and a shorter peptide fragment. Such …

Modeling of disordered protein structures using monte carlo simulations and knowledge-based statistical force fields

MP Ciemny, AE Badaczewska-Dawid… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The description of protein disordered states is important for understanding protein folding
mechanisms and their functions. In this short review, we briefly describe a simulation …

Modeling of protein structural flexibility and large-scale dynamics: Coarse-grained simulations and elastic network models

S Kmiecik, M Kouza, AE Badaczewska-Dawid… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fluctuations of protein three-dimensional structures and large-scale conformational
transitions are crucial for the biological function of proteins and their complexes …

Flexible docking of peptides to proteins using CABS‐dock

M Kurcinski, A Badaczewska‐Dawid… - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular docking of peptides to proteins can be a useful tool in the exploration of the
possible peptide binding sites and poses. CABS‐dock is a method for protein–peptide …

CABS-dock standalone: a toolbox for flexible protein–peptide docking

M Kurcinski, M Pawel Ciemny, T Oleniecki… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
CABS-dock standalone is a multiplatform Python package for protein–peptide docking with
backbone flexibility. The main feature of the CABS-dock method is its ability to simulate …

A plausible contributor to multiple sclerosis; presentation of antigenic myelin protein epitopes by major histocompatibility complexes

S Jakhmola, MF Sk, A Chatterjee, K Jain, P Kar… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) can be induced upon successful presentation of myelin
antigens by MHC I/II. Antigenic similarity between the myelin and viral proteins may worsen …

Protein–peptide docking using CABS-dock and contact information

M Blaszczyk, MP Ciemny, A Kolinski… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
CABS-dock is a computational method for protein–peptide molecular docking that does not
require predefinition of the binding site. The peptide is treated as fully flexible, while the …

Protein-peptide molecular docking with large-scale conformational changes: the p53-MDM2 interaction

MP Ciemny, A Debinski, M Paczkowska, A Kolinski… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Protein-peptide interactions are often associated with large-scale conformational changes
that are difficult to study either by classical molecular modeling or by experiment. Recently …

Funneling modulatory peptide design with generative models: Discovery and characterization of disruptors of calcineurin protein-protein interactions

J Tubiana, L Adriana-Lifshits, M Nissan… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Design of peptide binders is an attractive strategy for targeting “undruggable” protein-protein
interfaces. Current design protocols rely on the extraction of an initial sequence from one …

Computer-aided design of amino acid-based therapeutics: A review

T Farhadi, SMR Hashemian - Drug design, development and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
During the last two decades, the pharmaceutical industry has progressed from detecting
small molecules to designing biologic-based therapeutics. Amino acid-based drugs are a …