Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

Peptide-protein interactions are a key component of the cellular protein-protein interaction network. These interactions, in which one partner is a globular protein (or domain) and the other is a flexible linear peptide are very prevalent, and play a role in major cellular processes, predominantly in signaling and regulatory networks. Due to their abundance and cardinal role in regulatory interactions, flexible peptides are in many cases implicated in human disease and cancer. Consequently, peptide-protein interactions are gaining much interest of late. The Furman group have recently published a series of papers on the subject of peptide-protein interactions (disclaimer – these were partly authored by yours truly). In this post I will introduce the subject and the motivation to investigate these interactions and in later posts of this ‘mini-series’ I will get into more details on this on-going research.
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In a recent review published in Biochemistry, Kaufmann, Lemmon and DeLuca et al. from the Meiler Lab, cover the Rosetta modeling suite capabilities. More importantly, as supplementary information they provide tutorials to demonstrate 6 basic use cases of Rosetta.

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Amelie Stein, Roland A Pache, Pau Bernadó, Miquel Pons, Patrick Aloy (FEBS Journal, 2009)

This recent mini-review by Stein et al. focuses on the mechanisms that enable dynamic, transient, short lived interactions in cellular networks. Of special interest are the always popular “motif recognition domain”-”short flexible peptide” interactions. However, post translational modifications and regulation by disorder are also discussed. We concise the review further to some basic/interesting/anecdotal/”pondering worthy” points.

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