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Cooperative allosteric transitions can occur in multimeric proteins, where each subunit of the protein has its own ligand-binding site. When a ligand binds to any of these subunits, it triggers a conformational change that affects the binding sites in the other subunits; this can change the affinity of the other sites for their respective ligands. The ability of the protein to change the shape of its binding site is attributed to the presence of a mix of flexible and stable segments in the...

Cooperative Allosteric Transitions

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Cooperative allosteric transitions can occur in multimeric proteins, where each subunit of the protein has its own ligand-binding site. When a ligand binds to any of these subunits, it triggers a conformational change that affects the binding sites in the other subunits; this can change the affinity of the other sites for their respective ligands. The ability of the protein to change the shape of its binding site is attributed to the presence of a mix of flexible and stable segments in the...

Cooperative Allosteric Transitions

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Cooperative allosteric transitions can occur in multimeric proteins, where each subunit of the protein has its own ligand-binding site. When a ligand binds to any of these subunits, it triggers a conformational change that affects the binding sites in the other subunits; this can change the affinity of the other sites for their respective ligands. The ability of the protein to change the shape of its binding site is attributed to the presence of a mix of flexible and stable segments in the...

Allosteric Regulation

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Allosteric Regulation

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Optimization of Synthetic Proteins: Identification of Interpositional Dependencies Indicating Structurally and/or Functionally Linked Residues

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Published on: July 14, 2015

Directional information flow as a tool for analyzing protein allostery.

Remy A Yovanno¹, Albert Y Lau^1,2

¹Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology

|July 3, 2026

Summary

This study introduces TEntroPy, a Python library for analyzing directional information flow in proteins using transfer entropy. It reveals how allosteric ligands modulate protein dynamics and function.

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Fluorescence Anisotropy as a Tool to Study Protein-protein Interactions

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Published on: October 21, 2016

Area of Science:

Biophysics
Computational Biology
Structural Biology

Background:

Allosteric ligands can tune protein function, crucial for developing disease therapeutics.
Understanding the dynamic mechanisms of allosteric ligand action is essential.
Existing network models lack directional information flow analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

Develop a method to quantify directional information flow in proteins.
Analyze allosteric communication pathways using transfer entropy.
Investigate the role of intrinsic protein dynamics in allosteric regulation.

Main Methods:

Developed the Python library TEntroPy.
Applied transfer entropy to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
Generated directional protein networks and computed optimal information flow paths.

Main Results:

Identified key residues acting as information broadcasters and receivers in binding sites.
Demonstrated that directional information flow is encoded in intrinsic protein dynamics.
Showed that the TE-weighted network captures perturbation-induced dynamic changes.

Conclusions:

TEntroPy provides a novel tool for analyzing allosteric communication.
Temporal asymmetry in residue coupling reveals directional information flow.
This approach enhances understanding of dynamic mechanisms in allosteric regulation.