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Pablo Gainza

Monte Rosa Therapeutics
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Deciphering interaction fingerprints from protein molecular surfaces using geometric deep learning

P Gainza, F Sverrisson, F Monti, E Rodola, D Boscaini… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting interactions between proteins and other biomolecules solely based on structure
remains a challenge in biology. A high-level representation of protein structure, the molecular …

Optimization of therapeutic antibodies by predicting antigen specificity from antibody sequence via deep learning

…, RA Ehling, L Bonati, J Dahinden, P Gainza… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The optimization of therapeutic antibodies is time-intensive and resource-demanding, largely
because of the low-throughput screening of full-length antibodies (approximately 1 × 10 3 …

[HTML][HTML] De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

P Gainza, S Wehrle, A Van Hall-Beauvais, A Marchand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes governing
life 1 . However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been challenging to …

[HTML][HTML] Protein design using continuous rotamers

P Gainza, KE Roberts, BR Donald - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Optimizing amino acid conformation and identity is a central problem in computational protein
design. Protein design algorithms must allow realistic protein flexibility to occur during this …

OSPREY: protein design with ensembles, flexibility, and provable algorithms

P Gainza, KE Roberts, I Georgiev, RH Lilien… - Methods in …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed a suite of protein redesign algorithms that improves realistic in silico
modeling of proteins. These algorithms are based on three characteristics that make them …

From thalidomide to rational molecular glue design for targeted protein degradation

V Oleinikovas, P Gainza, T Ryckmans… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Thalidomide and its derivatives are powerful cancer therapeutics that are among the best-understood
molecular glue degraders (MGDs). These drugs selectively reprogram the E3 …

A computationally designed chimeric antigen receptor provides a small-molecule safety switch for T-cell therapy

G Giordano-Attianese, P Gainza, E Gray-Gaillard… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Approaches to increase the activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells against solid
tumors may also increase the risk of toxicity and other side effects. To improve the safety of …

Algorithms for protein design

P Gainza, HM Nisonoff, BR Donald - Current opinion in structural biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Computational structure-based protein design programs are becoming an increasingly
important tool in molecular biology. These programs compute protein sequences that are …

OSPREY 3.0: Open‐source protein redesign for you, with powerful new features

…, AU Lowegard, MS Frenkel, P Gainza… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present osprey 3.0, a new and greatly improved release of the osprey protein design
software. Osprey 3.0 features a convenient new Python interface, which greatly improves its …

[PDF][PDF] Rules and mechanisms governing G protein coupling selectivity of GPCRs

I Masuho, R Kise, P Gainza, E Von Moo, X Li, R Tany… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) convert extracellular stimuli into intracellular signaling
by coupling to heterotrimeric G proteins of four classes: G i/o , G q , G s , and G 12/13 . …