Protein Conformation

Modeling Active-State Conformations of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Using AlphaFold2 via Template Bias and Explicit Protein Constrains.

AlphaFold2 and other deep learning tools represent the state of the art for protein structure prediction; however, they are still limited in their ability to model multiple …

Chiesa, L.

Large scale investigation of GPCR molecular dynamics data uncovers allosteric sites and lateral gateways.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a functionally diverse protein family and are targets for a broad spectrum of pharmaceuticals.

Aranda-García, D.

Benchmarking AlphaFold-Generated Structures of Chemokine-Chemokine Receptor Complexes.

AlphaFold and AlphaFold-Multimer have become two essential tools for the modeling of unknown structures of proteins and protein complexes.

Urvas, L.

Estimating the Similarity between Protein Pockets.

With the exponential increase in publicly available protein structures, the comparison of protein binding sites naturally emerged as a scientific topic to explain observations or …

Eguida, M.

A Computer Vision Approach to Align and Compare Protein Cavities: Application to Fragment-Based Drug Design.

Identifying local similarities in binding sites from distant proteins is a major hurdle to rational drug design.

Eguida, M.

All in One: Cavity Detection, Druggability Estimate, Cavity-Based Pharmacophore Perception, and Virtual Screening

Discovering the very first ligands of pharmacologically important targets in a fast and cost-efficient manner is an important issue in drug discovery.

Tran-Nguyen, V.

A rationally designed oligopeptide shows significant conformational changes upon binding to sulphate ions.

Oligopeptides that interact with oxoanions were developed by rational design methods.

Demuth, C.

Use of fluorescence polarization to monitor MHC-peptide interactions in solution.

We describe here fluorescence polarization-based methods to investigate class I MHC-peptide interactions in solution.

Dédier, S.

NMR-restrained docking of a peptidic inhibitor to the N-terminal domain of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase enzyme I.

Starting from the NMR structure of the binary complex between the N-terminal domain of the unphosphorylated enzyme I (EIN) of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase (PTS) …

Rognan, D.

Thermodynamic stability of HLA-B*2705. Peptide complexes. Effect of peptide and major histocompatibility complex protein mutations.

Designing synthetic vaccines from class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-binding antigenic peptides requires not only knowledge of the binding affinity of the designed …

Dédier, S.