The interface of protein structure, protein biophysics, and molecular evolution

DA Liberles, SA Teichmann, I Bahar, U Bastolla… - Protein …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The interface of protein structural biology, protein biophysics, molecular evolution,
and molecular population genetics forms the foundations for a mechanistic understanding of …

Assessing the performance of computational predictors for estimating protein stability changes upon missense mutations

S Iqbal, F Li, T Akutsu, DB Ascher… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Understanding how a mutation might affect protein stability is of significant importance to
protein engineering and for understanding protein evolution genetic diseases. While a …

Predicting protein stability changes upon single-point mutation: a thorough comparison of the available tools on a new dataset

C Pancotti, S Benevenuta, G Birolo… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Predicting the difference in thermodynamic stability between protein variants is crucial for
protein design and understanding the genotype-phenotype relationships. So far, several …

INPS-MD: a web server to predict stability of protein variants from sequence and structure

C Savojardo, P Fariselli, PL Martelli, R Casadio - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Protein function depends on its structural stability. The effects of single point
variations on protein stability can elucidate the molecular mechanisms of human diseases …

Reductive genome evolution in Buchnera aphidicola

RCHJ Van Ham, J Kamerbeek… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
We have sequenced the genome of the intracellular symbiont Buchnera aphidicola from the
aphid Baizongia pistacea. This strain diverged 80–150 million years ago from the common …

DDGun: an untrained predictor of protein stability changes upon amino acid variants

L Montanucci, E Capriotti, G Birolo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Estimating the functional effect of single amino acid variants in proteins is fundamental for
predicting the change in the thermodynamic stability, measured as the difference in the …

DDGun: an untrained method for the prediction of protein stability changes upon single and multiple point variations

L Montanucci, E Capriotti, Y Frank, N Ben-Tal… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background Predicting the effect of single point variations on protein stability constitutes a
crucial step toward understanding the relationship between protein structure and function …

An antisymmetric neural network to predict free energy changes in protein variants

S Benevenuta, C Pancotti, P Fariselli… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The prediction of free energy changes upon protein residue variations is an important
application in biophysics and biomedicine. Several methods have been developed to …

Role of water mediated interactions in protein− protein recognition landscapes

GA Papoian, J Ulander… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The energy landscape picture of protein folding and binding is employed to optimize a
number of pair potentials for direct and water-mediated interactions in protein complex …

Extending the PRIME model for protein aggregation to all 20 amino acids

M Cheon, I Chang, CK Hall - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We extend PRIME, an intermediate‐resolution protein model previously used in simulations
of the aggregation of polyalanine and polyglutamine, to the description of the geometry and …