Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    Empowering AlphaFold2 for protein conformation selective drug discovery with AlphaFold2-RAVE

    Xinyu Gu, Akashnathan Aranganathan, Pratyush Tiwary
    AlphaFold2's inability to generate non-native conformations for docking is addressed by AI-molecular dynamics method AlphaFold2-RAVE, which produces Boltzmann-ranked conformations, enabling the retrospective discovery of type II kinase inhibitors.
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    Dynamic basis of lipopolysaccharide export by LptB2FGC

    Marina Dajka, Tobias Rath ... Benesh Joseph
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    A cryo-ET study of ciliary rootlet organization

    Chris van Hoorn, Andrew P Carter
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    Additional feedforward mechanism of Parkin activation via binding of phospho-UBL and RING0 in trans

    Dipti Ranjan Lenka, Shakti Virendra Dahe ... Atul Kumar
    The new insights into the activation mechanism of Parkin E3 ligase could be useful for designing small-molecule activators against Parkinson’s disease.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure and dynamics of cholesterol-mediated aquaporin-0 arrays and implications for lipid rafts

    Po-Lin Chiu, Juan D Orjuela ... Thomas Walz
    Electron crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations show that a cholesterol sandwiched in between two neighboring aquaporin-0 tetramers stabilizes the association between the tetramers and thus promotes array formation.

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