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  1. Kiinnitetty twiitti
    30. kesäk. 2021

    We have a number of projects going to understand the new variants of , like . Our main focus is on the (aka ), building on our recent paper comparing different

    Kumoa
  2. uudelleentwiittasi
    10. toukok.
    Vastauksena käyttäjille , ja

    I really don't think were trying to "beat" big pharma. Paxlovid is great. The moonshot project is awesome. We DEFINITELY need more than one antiviral to fight coronaviruses...

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  3. 4. toukok.

    The deflector shield is down! Commence attack on the world's diseases! To use "real" force fields, come fold proteins with us!

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  4. uudelleentwiittasi
    3. toukok.

    More cool work on discovering cryptic pockets from the team. Lately I've really enjoyed reading papers which use adaptive sampling techniques.

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  5. 3. toukok.
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  6. 3. toukok.

    Together this work shows that considering how a protein changes shape may be important for our understanding of whether that protein should be a target for drug design. Knowing what to target for drug design helps us start to tackle many diseases.

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  7. 3. toukok.

    We showed that forcing small molecules into the cryptic pocket disrupts RNA binding, as expected based on our modeling. Therefore, targeting this pocket could provide a new means to develop antiviral drugs!

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  8. 3. toukok.

    VP35 suppresses the immune system by binding to RNA, a product of viral replication, and preventing the human cells from sensing the RNA's presence. So RNA binding measurements are a good way to initially test for an effect of pocket opening on immune suppression.

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  9. 3. toukok.

    To experimentally test the predicted cryptic pocket, we used a technique that reports on whether supposedly buried residues get exposed to chemical labeling reagents. The labeling we observe supports the predicted pocket exists!

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  10. 3. toukok.

    Further simulation analyses showed that the pocket opening motion affects distant parts of the protein known to be important for viral replication and immune suppression.

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  11. 3. toukok.

    In this work, we discovered a cryptic pocket that opens in VP35 and has enough volume and available interactions for drug-like molecules to bind.

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  12. 3. toukok.

    The protein dynamics captured by our simulations often reveal ‘cryptic’ pockets that are absent in single experimentally-derived snapshots, as we have discussed previously

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  13. 3. toukok.

    While the virus protein VP35 is known to be important for suppressing the immune system during Ebola virus infections, relatively little effort has gone into drugging VP35 because it lacks obvious drug-binding sites.

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  14. 3. toukok.

    🚨PAPER ALERT🚨 With your help, we have discovered a cryptic pocket in an essential protein that provides a new opportunity to develop antiviral drugs. Read more

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  15. 27. huhtik.

    There's a new version of msmbuilder out that fixes all of the accumulated dependency issues. Find it on Thanks for spearheading the effort!

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  16. 23. huhtik.

    Congrats on earning your PhD, and thanks for your contributions to !

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  17. 22. huhtik.

    For we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the number one donor team, Default Team Anonymous! With a million and a half Work Units completed, it is the biggest collection of folders we have and we thank you for all your anonymous contributions.

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  18. 19. huhtik.

    For today's we present the ion channel KCNQ1 – An ion channel in the heart important for controlling the rhythm of our heartbeat. Mutations in KCNQ1 are linked to arrhythmias, something we hope our simulations can help understand!

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  19. uudelleentwiittasi
    18. huhtik.

    Huge congratulations to superstar scientist Sukrit Singh () on being awarded a Quantitative Biology Fellow! We're incredibly lucky to be able to host Sukrit here at as he tackles complex problems at the frontier.

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  20. 18. huhtik.

    Congrats to FAH scientist for being awarded a highly-prestigious Quantitative Biology Fellowship to study mutations and how they lead to therapy resistance – an important step to identifying the optimal treatment for a patient's tumor.

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  21. 16. huhtik.

    Good thing the grant reviewers don’t know there are actually 100K people in ’s lab!

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