Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

In a recent Science paper, Sarel Fleishman et al. report the de-novo computational design of a protein interface to specifically target and tightly bind a surface patch of the flu hemaglutinin protein. We interview Sarel to get the insights from behind the scenes and the outlook for this exciting approach.

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In a research published at Cell, Skerker et al. performs a computational co-variation analysis on a dataset of two-component system sequences. This results in a set of putative specificity determining residues. The authors then demonstrate how they can successfully use these to modulate Histidine Kinase-Response Regulator interactions both in-vitro and in-vivo. By Nir London
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