Locuaz: an in silico platform for protein binders optimization.
Bioinformatics
; 40(8)2024 08 02.
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| ID: mdl-39107888
ABSTRACT
MOTIVATION Engineering high-affinity binders targeting specific antigenic determinants remains a challenging and often daunting task, requiring extensive experimental screening. Computational methods have the potential to accelerate this process, reducing costs and time, but only if they demonstrate broad applicability and efficiency in exploring mutations, evaluating affinity, and pruning unproductive mutation paths. RESULTS:
In response to these challenges, we introduce a new computational platform for optimizing protein binders towards their targets. The platform is organized as a series of modules, performing mutation selection and application, molecular dynamics simulations to sample conformations around interaction poses, and mutation prioritization using suitable scoring functions. Notably, the platform supports parallel exploration of different mutation streams, enabling in silico high-throughput screening on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Furthermore, the platform is highly customizable, allowing users to implement their own protocols. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The source code is available at https//github.com/pgbarletta/locuaz and documentation is at https//locuaz.readthedocs.io/. The data underlying this article are available at https//github.com/pgbarletta/suppl_info_locuaz.
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Bioinformatics
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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Itália
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Reino Unido