Insights into distinct signaling profiles of the µOR activated by diverse agonists

Q Qu, W Huang, D Aydin, JM Paggi, AB Seven… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Drugs targeting the μ-opioid receptor (μOR) are the most effective analgesics available but
are also associated with fatal respiratory depression through a pathway that remains …

ProLIF: a library to encode molecular interactions as fingerprints

C Bouysset, S Fiorucci - Journal of cheminformatics, 2021 - Springer
Interaction fingerprints are vector representations that summarize the three-dimensional
nature of interactions in molecular complexes, typically formed between a protein and a …

Simple biochemical features underlie transcriptional activation domain diversity and dynamic, fuzzy binding to Mediator

AL Sanborn, BT Yeh, JT Feigerle, CV Hao… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene activator proteins comprise distinct DNA-binding and transcriptional activation
domains (ADs). Because few ADs have been described, we tested domains tiling all yeast …

Dynamic spatiotemporal determinants modulate GPCR: G protein coupling selectivity and promiscuity

M Sandhu, A Cho, N Ma, E Mukhaleva… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent studies have shown that G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) show selective and
promiscuous coupling to different Gα protein subfamilies and yet the mechanisms of the …

GPCRmd uncovers the dynamics of the 3D-GPCRome

I Rodríguez-Espigares, M Torrens-Fontanals… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are involved in numerous physiological processes
and are the most frequent targets of approved drugs. The explosion in the number of new …

Prioritizing virtual screening with interpretable interaction fingerprints

AV Fassio, L Shub, L Ponzoni, J McKinley… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Machine learning-based drug discovery success depends on molecular representation. Yet
traditional molecular fingerprints omit both the protein and pointers back to structural …

The Role of Force Fields and Water Models in Protein Folding and Unfolding Dynamics

ALM Fischer, A Tichy, J Kokot… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein folding is a fascinating, not fully understood phenomenon in biology. Molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations are an invaluable tool to study conformational changes in …

Molecular insights into the differential dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

N Mandal, AK Padhi, SL Rath - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected the
lives and livelihood of millions of individuals around the world. It has mutated several times …

SCoV2-MD: a database for the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome and variant impact predictions

M Torrens-Fontanals, A Peralta-García… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract SCoV2-MD (www. scov2-md. org) is a new online resource that systematically
organizes atomistic simulations of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome. The database includes …

CrossDome: an interactive R package to predict cross-reactivity risk using immunopeptidomics databases

AF Fonseca, DA Antunes - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
T-cell-based immunotherapies hold tremendous potential in the fight against cancer, thanks
to their capacity to specifically targeting diseased cells. Nevertheless, this potential has been …