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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2012

Computational prediction of protein hot spot residues.

John Kenneth Morrow, Shuxing Zhang

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Predicting interacting hotspots for nanobodies' binding using triplets of residues.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  11. Cold spots are universal in protein-protein interactions.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2022
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  12. In Silico Prediction ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  16. Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

John Kenneth MorrowDepartment of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77054, USA.
Shuxing Zhang

Funding

Targeting Tumor Microenvironment-Induced Therapy Resistance in Prostate Cancer Bone MetastasisP50CA140388 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI LOGOTHETIS, CHRISTOPHER J., THOMPSON, TIMOTHY CHARLES · 2009 to 2022
$23.4M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA140388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most biological processes involve multiple proteins interacting with each other. It has been recently discovered that certain residues in these protein-protein interactions, which are called hot spots, contribute more significantly to binding affinity than others. Hot spot residues have unique and diverse energetic properties that make them challenging yet important targets in the modulation of protein-protein complexes. Design of therapeutic agents that interact with hot spot residues has proven to be a valid methodology in disrupting unwanted protein-protein interactions. Using biological methods to determine which residues are hot spots can be costly and time consuming. Recent advances in computational approaches to predict hot spots have incorporated a myriad of features, and have shown increasing predictive successes. Here we review the state of knowledge around protein-protein interactions, hot spots, and give an overview of multiple in silico prediction techniques of hot spot residues.

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Drug DesignComputational BiologyComputer-Aided DesignDrug DiscoveryHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein Interaction MappingProteinsProteins

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PMID22316154
PMCPMC3807665

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