EnCPdock: a web-interface for direct conjoint comparative analyses of complementarity and binding energetics in inter-protein associations

G Biswas, D Mukherjee, N Dutta, P Ghosh… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Context Protein–protein interaction (PPI) is a key component linked to virtually all cellular
processes. Be it an enzyme catalysis ('classic type functions' of proteins) or a signal …

Capturing a crucial 'disorder-to-order transition'at the heart of the coronavirus molecular pathology—triggered by highly persistent, interchangeable salt-bridges

S Roy, P Ghosh, A Bandyopadhyay, S Basu - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 origin debate has greatly been influenced by genome comparison studies of
late, revealing the emergence of the Furin-like cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction of the …

Plausible blockers of Spike RBD in SARS-CoV2—Molecular design and underlying interaction dynamics from high-level structural descriptors

S Basu, D Chakravarty, D Bhattacharyya… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 is characterized by an unprecedented abrupt increase in the viral transmission
rate (SARS-CoV-2) relative to its pandemic evolutionary ancestor, SARS-CoV (2003). The …

Modified host defence peptide GF19 slows TNT-mediated spread of corneal herpes simplex virus serotype I infection

NC Thathapudi, N Callai-Silva, K Malhotra, S Basu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Corneal HSV-1 infections are a leading cause of infectious blindness globally by triggering
tissue damage due to the intense inflammation. HSV-1 infections are treated mainly with …

Phosphorylcholine and KR12-containing corneal implants in HSV-1-infected rabbit corneas

K Malhotra, O Buznyk, MM Islam, E Edin, S Basu… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Severe HSV-1 infection can cause blindness due to tissue damage from severe
inflammation. Due to the high risk of graft failure in HSV-1-infected individuals, cornea …

Combining Complementarity and Binding Energetics in the Assessment of Protein Interactions: EnCPdock—A Practical Manual

G Biswas, D Mukherjee, S Basu - Journal of Computational Biology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
The combined effect of shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sc, EC) at the interface of
the interacting protein partners (PPI) serves as the physical basis for such associations and …

Shape complementarity at protein interfaces via global docking optimisation

G Williams - Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Protein complexes are characterised by shape complementarity at the interface. Here we
present a simple fast global shape fitting algorithm to investigate the extent to which …

Combining Complementarity and Binding Energetics in Protein Interactions: EnCPdock—A Practical Manual

G Biswas, D Mukherjee, S Basu - 2023 - preprints.org
The combined efect of shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sc, EC) at the interface of
the interacting protein partners (PPI) serves as the physical basis for such associations and …

Plot-Tools in Protein Structure Validations: From the Ramachandran Plot to the Complementarity Plot (Commentary)

S Basu - 2023 - preprints.org
A picture is worth a thousand words. Many branches of Science have been historically
benefited with plots and visual analyses (lately, image processing and deep learning) …