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Author Spotlight: A Computational Approach to Decipher Amino Acid Preferences in Multispecific Protein-Protein Interactions
Published on: January 26, 2024
PARS: a web server for the prediction of Protein Allosteric and Regulatory Sites
Alejandro Panjkovich1, Xavier Daura
1Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra 08193, Spain and Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona 08010, Spain.
Abstract:
The regulation of protein activity is a key aspect of life at the molecular level. Unveiling its details is thus crucial to understanding signalling and metabolic pathways. The most common and powerful mechanism of protein-function regulation is allostery, which has been increasingly calling the attention of medicinal chemists due to its potential for the discovery of novel therapeutics. In this context, PARS is a simple and fast method that queries protein dynamics and structural conservation to identify pockets on a protein structure that may exert a regulatory effect on the binding of a small-molecule ligand.
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