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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2022

Design and engineering of allosteric communications in proteins.

Jiaxing Chen, Yashavantha L Vishweshwaraiah, Nikolay V Dokholyan

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Allosteric regulation of kinase activity in living cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  20. Emerging maps of allosteric regulation in cellular networks.Current opinion in structural biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiaxing ChenDepartment of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033-0850, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/JiaxingChen18.
Yashavantha L VishweshwaraiahDepartment of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033-0850, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/IAmYashHegde.
Nikolay V DokholyanDepartment of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033-0850, USA; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033-0850, USA; Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. Electronic address: dokh@psu.edu.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · US

Funding

Nanoscale programming of cellular and physiological phenotypes: EquipmentR35GM134864 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Nikolay Dokholyan · 2020 to 2026
$5.2M
Discovery of functionally selective dopamine ligands for age-related cognitive declineRF1AG071675 · NIA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY, MAILMAN, RICHARD B · 2021 to 2021
$1.5M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG071675NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM134864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allostery in proteins plays an important role in regulating protein activities and influencing many biological processes such as gene expression, enzyme catalysis, and cell signaling. The process of allostery takes place when a signal detected at a site on a protein is transmitted via a mechanical pathway to a functional site and, thus, influences its activity. The pathway of allosteric communication consists of amino acids that form a network with covalent and non-covalent bonds. By mutating residues in this allosteric network, protein engineers have successfully established novel allosteric pathways to achieve desired properties in the target protein. In this review, we highlight the most recent and state-of-the-art techniques for allosteric communication engineering. We also discuss the challenges that need to be overcome and future directions for engineering protein allostery.

Indexed as

Protein EngineeringProteinsAllosteric RegulationAllosteric SiteProteins

Identifiers

PMID35180676
PMCPMC8957532
OpenAlexW4213277806

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