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Under many conditions, biomolecules and nanoparticles associate by means of attractive bonds, due to hydrophobic attraction. Extracting the microscopic association or dissociation rates from experimental data is complicated by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-13 Alessio Zaccone , Jerome J. Crassous , Benjamin Béri , Matthias Ballauff

How DNA-binding proteins locate specific genomic targets remains a central challenge in molecular biology. Traditional protein-centric approaches, which rely on wet-lab experiments and visualization techniques, often lack genome-wide…

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Window profiles of amino acids in protein sequences are taken as a description of the amino acid environment. The relative entropy or Kullback-Leibler distance derived from profiles is used as a measure of dissimilarity for comparison of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin Liu , Li-mei Zhang , Shan Guan , Wei-Mou Zheng

Nanoparticles (NPs) engineered for biomedical applications are meant to be in contact with protein-rich physiological fluids. These proteins are usually adsorbed onto the NP surface, forming a swaddling layer called protein corona that…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 M. P. Catalayud , B. Sanz , V. Raffa , C. Riggio , M. R. Ibarra , G. F. Goya

Predicting protein properties such as solvent accessibility and secondary structure from its primary amino acid sequence is an important task in bioinformatics. Recently, a few deep learning models have surpassed the traditional window…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Zeming Lin , Jack Lanchantin , Yanjun Qi

We present and discuss a novel approach to the direct and inverse protein folding problem. The proposed strategy is based on a variational approach that allows the simultaneous extraction of amino acid interactions and the low-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Flavio Seno , Cristian Micheletti , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

Ordered protein layers are the subject of active biomedical research for their usually interesting physicochemical properties, e.g. permeability, stiffness and pours structure. In presented work, we focused on layers build of fibrinogen…

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Understanding protein-protein interactions is central to our understanding of almost all complex biological processes. Computational tools exploiting rapidly growing genomic databases to characterize protein-protein interactions are…

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Despite the recognized importance of the multi-scale spatio-temporal organization of proteins, most computational tools can only access a limited spectrum of time and spatial scales, thereby ignoring the effects on protein behavior of the…

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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essentials for many biological processes where two or more proteins physically bind together to achieve their functions. Modeling PPIs is useful for many biomedical applications, such as vaccine…

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The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor…

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The classical approach to protein folding inspired by statistical mechanics avoids the high dimensional structure of the conformation space by using effective coordinates. Here we introduce a network approach to capture the statistical…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Erzsebet Ravasz , S. Gnanakaran , Zoltan Toroczkai

An optimization technique is used to determine the pairwise interactions between amino acids in globular proteins. A numerical strategy is applied to a set of proteins for maximizing the native fold stability with respect to alternative…

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The respective roles of local and nonlocal interactions in the thermodynamic cooperativity of proteins are investigated using continuum (off-lattice) native-centric G\=o-like models with a coarse-grained C$_\alpha$ chain representation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Knott , Huseyin Kaya , Hue Sun Chan

The design of low-dimensional organic-inorganic interfaces for the next generation of opto-electronic applications requires an in-depth understanding of the microscopic mechanisms ruling electronic interactions in these systems. In this…

The evanescent field of an optical nanofiber presents a versatile interface for the manipulation of micron-scale particles in dispersion. Here, we present a detailed study of the optical binding interactions of a pair of 3.13 $\mu$m SiO$_2$…

Nanopore protein sequencing produces long, noisy ionic current traces in which key molecular phases, such as protein capture and translocation, are embedded. Capture phases mark the successful entry of a protein into the pore and serve as…

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We review the theoretical analyses and simulations of the interactions between curvature-inducing proteins and biomembranes. Laterally isotropic proteins induce spherical budding, whereas anisotropic proteins, such as Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs…

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