Nonspecific binding—fundamental concepts and consequences for biosensing applications

A Frutiger, A Tanno, S Hwu, RF Tiefenauer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nature achieves differentiation of specific and nonspecific binding in molecular interactions
through precise control of biomolecules in space and time. Artificial systems such as …

AlphaFold, artificial intelligence (AI), and allostery

R Nussinov, M Zhang, Y Liu, H Jang - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
AlphaFold has burst into our lives. A powerful algorithm that underscores the strength of
biological sequence data and artificial intelligence (AI). AlphaFold has appended projects …

[HTML][HTML] Protein structure prediction has reached the single-structure frontier

TJ Lane - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Dramatic advances in protein structure prediction have sparked debate as to whether the
problem of predicting structure from sequence is solved or not. Here, I argue that AlphaFold2 …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging molecular docking to molecular dynamics in exploring ligand-protein recognition process: An overview

V Salmaso, S Moro - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Computational techniques have been applied in the drug discovery pipeline since the
1980s. Given the low computational resources of the time, the first molecular modeling …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsically disordered proteins and their “mysterious”(meta) physics

VN Uversky - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of the natural abundance and functional importance of intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs), and protein hybrids that contain both intrinsically disordered protein regions …

The roles of structural dynamics in the cellular functions of RNAs

LR Ganser, ML Kelly, D Herschlag… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
RNAs fold into 3D structures that range from simple helical elements to complex tertiary
structures and quaternary ribonucleoprotein assemblies. The functions of many regulatory …

Utility of B-factors in protein science: interpreting rigidity, flexibility, and internal motion and engineering thermostability

Z Sun, Q Liu, G Qu, Y Feng, MT Reetz - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The term B-factor, sometimes called the Debye–Waller factor, temperature factor, or atomic
displacement parameter, is used in protein crystallography to describe the attenuation of X …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into protein–ligand interactions: mechanisms, models, and methods

X Du, Y Li, YL Xia, SM Ai, J Liang, P Sang… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Molecular recognition, which is the process of biological macromolecules interacting with
each other or various small molecules with a high specificity and affinity to form a specific …

Protein generation with evolutionary diffusion: sequence is all you need

S Alamdari, N Thakkar, R van den Berg, AX Lu, N Fusi… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Deep generative models are increasingly powerful tools for the in silico design of novel
proteins. Recently, a family of generative models called diffusion models has demonstrated …

Mechanics of 3D cell–hydrogel interactions: experiments, models, and mechanisms

FJ Vernerey, S Lalitha Sridhar, A Muralidharan… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are highly water-swollen molecular networks that are ideal platforms to create
tissue mimetics owing to their vast and tunable properties. As such, hydrogels are promising …