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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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