This paper was published in Nature Communications in May 2018. Abstract Modification of SMN2 exon 7 (E7) splicing is a validated therapeutic strategy against spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). However, a target-based approach to identify small-molecule E7 splicing modifiers has not been attempted, which could reveal novel therapies with improved mechanistic insight. Here, […]
This paper was published in the Biophysical Journal in May 2018. Abstract Human mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) distorts DNA into a U-turn, as shown by crystallographic studies. The relevance of this U-turn is associated with transcription initiation at the mitochondrial light strand promoter (LSP). However, it has not been […]
Abstract We present the performance of HADDOCK, our information-driven docking software, in the second edition of the D3R Grand Challenge. In this blind experiment, participants were requested to predict the structures and binding affinities of complexes between the Farnesoid X nuclear receptor and 102 different ligands. The models obtained in […]
Abstract In a recent issue of Nature Protocols, Orbán-Németh et al.1 present a protocol to predict structural models of proteins and their complexes from mass spectrometry (MS) cross-linking data. We read the protocol with interest, as it uses third-party software including the HADDOCK web portal2 that we developed and maintain. While […]
Abstract Despite a large number of antiretroviral drugs targeting HIV-1 protease for inhibition, mutations in this protein during the course of patient treatment can render them inefficient. This emerging resistance inspired numerous computational studies of the HIV-1 protease aimed at predicting the effect of mutations on drug binding in terms […]
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