A backbone-centred energy function of neural networks for protein design

B Huang, Y Xu, X Hu, Y Liu, S Liao, J Zhang, C Huang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A protein backbone structure is designable if a substantial number of amino acid sequences
exist that autonomously fold into it 1 , 2 . It has been suggested that the designability of …

N-terminal domain of Bombyx mori fibroin mediates the assembly of silk in response to pH decrease

YX He, NN Zhang, WF Li, N Jia, BY Chen… - Journal of molecular …, 2012 - Elsevier
Fibroins serve as the major building blocks of silk fiber. As the major component of fibroin,
the fibroin heavy chain is a considerably large protein comprising N-terminal and C-terminal …

Solution Structure of Human Brg1 Bromodomain and Its Specific Binding to Acetylated Histone Tails,

W Shen, C Xu, W Huang, J Zhang, JE Carlson, X Tu… - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Human brahma-related gene 1 (Brg1) is a core protein in human SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling
complex which regulates gene expression. Brg1 contains a bromodomain that has …

Rotamer-free protein sequence design based on deep learning and self-consistency

Y Liu, L Zhang, W Wang, M Zhu, C Wang, F Li… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Several previously proposed deep learning methods to design amino acid sequences that
autonomously fold into a given protein backbone yielded promising results in computational …

Combinatorial readout of unmodified H3R2 and acetylated H3K14 by the tandem PHD finger of MOZ reveals a regulatory mechanism for HOXA9 transcription

Y Qiu, L Liu, C Zhao, C Han, F Li, J Zhang… - Genes & …, 2012 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Histone acetylation is a hallmark for gene transcription. As a histone acetyltransferase, MOZ
(monocytic leukemia zinc finger protein) is important for HOX gene expression as well as …

Comparison of generation 3 polyamidoamine dendrimer and generation 4 polypropylenimine dendrimer on drug loading, complex structure, release behavior, and …

N Shao, Y Su, J Hu, J Zhang, H Zhang… - International journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Background Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) and polypropylenimine (PPI) dendrimers are the
commercially available and most widely used dendrimers in pharmaceutical sciences and …

[HTML][HTML] Protein design with a comprehensive statistical energy function and boosted by experimental selection for foldability

P Xiong, M Wang, X Zhou, T Zhang, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The de novo design of amino acid sequences to fold into desired structures is a way to reach
a more thorough understanding of how amino acid sequences encode protein structures …

Pup, a prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein, is an intrinsically disordered protein

S Liao, Q Shang, X Zhang, J Zhang, C Xu… - Biochemical …, 2009 - portlandpress.com
Pup (prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the first ubiquitin-like
protein identified in non-eukaryotic cells. Although different ubiquitin-like proteins from …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and functional insights into the human Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome-associated protein PHF6

Z Liu, F Li, K Ruan, J Zhang, Y Mei, J Wu… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The plant homeodomain finger 6 (PHF6) was originally identified as the gene mutated in the
X-linked mental retardation disorder Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome. Mutations in …

Combined prediction and design reveals the target recognition mechanism of an intrinsically disordered protein interaction domain

…, C Wang, Y Liu, L Zhang, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
An increasing number of protein interaction domains and their targets are being found to be
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The corresponding target recognition mechanisms …