Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

Predicting self-assembly: from empirism to determinism

CA Palma, M Cecchini, P Samorì - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly is one of the most important concepts of the 21st century. Strikingly, despite
the rational design of molecules for biological and pharmaceutical applications is rather well …

A computationally designed chimeric antigen receptor provides a small-molecule safety switch for T-cell therapy

G Giordano-Attianese, P Gainza, E Gray-Gaillard… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Approaches to increase the activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells against solid
tumors may also increase the risk of toxicity and other side effects. To improve the safety of …

EvoEF2: accurate and fast energy function for computational protein design

X Huang, R Pearce, Y Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The accuracy and success rate of de novo protein design remain limited, mainly
due to the parameter over-fitting of current energy functions and their inability to discriminate …

OSPREY: protein design with ensembles, flexibility, and provable algorithms

P Gainza, KE Roberts, I Georgiev, RH Lilien… - Methods in …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed a suite of protein redesign algorithms that improves realistic in silico
modeling of proteins. These algorithms are based on three characteristics that make them …

Computational design of a PDZ domain peptide inhibitor that rescues CFTR activity

KE Roberts, PR Cushing, P Boisguerin… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is an epithelial chloride
channel mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The most prevalent CFTR mutation …

OSPREY 3.0: Open‐source protein redesign for you, with powerful new features

MA Hallen, JW Martin, A Ojewole… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present osprey 3.0, a new and greatly improved release of the osprey protein design
software. Osprey 3.0 features a convenient new Python interface, which greatly improves its …

Molprobity's ultimate rotamer‐library distributions for model validation

BJ Hintze, SM Lewis, JS Richardson… - Proteins: Structure …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Here we describe the updated MolProbity rotamer‐library distributions derived from an order‐
of‐magnitude larger and more stringently quality‐filtered dataset of about 8000 (vs. 500) …

[HTML][HTML] Computational protein design as an optimization problem

D Allouche, I André, S Barbe, J Davies, S de Givry… - Artificial Intelligence, 2014 - Elsevier
Proteins are chains of simple molecules called amino acids. The three-dimensional shape of
a protein and its amino acid composition define its biological function. Over millions of years …

[HTML][HTML] Improved HIV-1 neutralization breadth and potency of V2-apex antibodies by in silico design

GT Holt, J Gorman, S Wang, AU Lowegard, B Zhang… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against HIV can reduce viral transmission in
humans, but an effective therapeutic will require unusually high breadth and potency of …