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ArticleMarine drugs2020

Graph-Directed Approach for Downselecting Toxins for Experimental Structure Determination.

Rachael A Mansbach, Srirupa Chakraborty, Timothy Travers, S Gnanakaran

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Article in Marine drugs, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rachael A MansbachTheoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6738-1261
Srirupa ChakrabortyTheoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7155-2764
Timothy TraversTheoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0105-3844
S GnanakaranTheoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9368-3044
Los Alamos National Laboratory · US

Funding

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Fun-GCATU.S. Department of Energy 89233218CNA000001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conotoxins are short, cysteine-rich peptides of great interest as novel therapeutic leads and of great concern as lethal biological agents due to their high affinity and specificity for various receptors involved in neuromuscular transmission. Currently, of the approximately 6000 known conotoxin sequences, only about 3% have associated structural characterization, which leads to a bottleneck in rapid high-throughput screening (HTS) for identification of potential leads or threats. In this work, we combine a graph-based approach with homology modeling to expand the library of conotoxin structures and to identify those conotoxin sequences that are of the greatest value for experimental structural characterization. The latter would allow for the rapid expansion of the known structural space for generating high quality template-based models. Our approach generalizes to other evolutionarily-related, short, cysteine-rich venoms of interest. Overall, we present and validate an approach for venom structure modeling and experimental guidance and employ it to produce a 290%-larger library of approximate conotoxin structures for HTS. We also provide a set of ranked conotoxin sequences for experimental structure determination to further expand this library.

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Conus SnailStructural Homology, ProteinStructure-Activity RelationshipAnimalsConotoxinsConotoxinsconotoxinshomology modelingnetwork analysisprotein structure determination

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PMID32422972
PMCPMC7281422
OpenAlexW3024234972

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