Author: tanggis

Development and applications of fragment based drug design methods

Sandor Vajda, Karen Allen, George Keseru, and Adrian Whitty Supported by: NIH R35 GM118078 “Computational Mapping of Proteins for the Binding of Ligands” (PI: Vajda) Fragment-based drug design (FBDD) is a combinatorial approach in which individual fragments binding to regions of the target site are selected from a fragment library, and then combined to form […]

Inhibitors targeting protein-protein interactions

Adrian Whitty, Karen Allen, John Porco, and Sandor Vajda. Supported by: NIH R01 GM117350 “Molecular Mechanism Of The Nfkappab Essential Modulator (Nemo) Scaffold Protein Mutated In Human Immunodeficiencies” (PI: Adrian Whitty) NIH R35 GM118078 “Analysis and Prediction of Molecular Interactions” (PI: Sandor Vajda) NF-κB essential modulator (NEMO) is a component of the Inhibitor of κB […]

BMERC Seminar: Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions and Surfaces of E3 Cullin RING Ubiquitin Ligases with Chemical Probes

BMERC Seminar When:       Monday, September 21, 2 pm Where:      ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street Title:          Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions and Surfaces of E3 Cullin RING Ubiquitin Ligases with Chemical Probes: Small Molecule Inhibitors and PROTACs Speaker:  Dr. Alessio Ciulli Principal Investigator, Reader and BBSRC David Phillips Fellow at the School of Life […]

New paper in Nature Protocols describing the FTMap familty of web servers

This Nature Protocols paper describes in details the series of web servers developed based on FTMap including FTSite, to predict ligand-binding sites, FTFlex, to account for side chain flexibility, FTMap/param, to parameterize additional probes, and FTDyn, for mapping ensembles of protein structures. Applications of the FTMap family of servers include determining the druggability of proteins, […]

Seminar: Allostery and entropy in molecular recognition

Our speaker had to cancel his visit this week. We are very sorry for this change. BMERC Seminar When:       Thursday, May 29, 11:00 am Where:      ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street Title:          Allostery and entropy in molecular recognition Speaker:   Anatoly M. Ruvinsky AstraZeneca, R&D Boston, […]

BMERC Seminar: New Directions in Docking and Scoring

When:       Tuesday, May 27, 11:00 am   Where:      ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street   Title:          New Directions in Docking and Scoring   Speaker:   Dr. Istvan J. Enyedy Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA   Abstract: Target structure-based “hit” optimization in a drug discovery project is challenging from the computational point of view. Scoring functions cannot predict binding […]

BMERC Seminar

When:       Monday, April 7, 2:00 pm Where:      ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street Title:          Interactive drug discovery technologies as complement to fragment based drug discovery Speaker:  Prof. Carlos J. Camacho Department of Computational and Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh Abstract:  Although there is no shortage of potential […]

BMERC Seminar: Hybrid computational strategies for inhibitor design

When:   Monday, February 24, 2:00 pm Where:  ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street  Title:      Hybrid computational strategies for inhibitor design: a case study with protein methyltransferases Speaker:  Melissa Landon, Ph.D., Schrodinger Inc., Cambridge, MA. Abstract:  Protein methyltransferases (PMTs) are attractive epigenetic targets for the development of novel chemotherapeutic agents as well as for the treatment of neurogenerative- and inflammatory- […]

BMERC Seminar series

Title: Occupy XLMS: Structural biology for the 99% When: Friday , December 13th; 11:30-12:45am Where: ERB705 Speaker:  Dr. Valdimir Svetlov (NYU) Abstract: Mass spectrometry-assisted mapping of covalently crosslinked peptides (XLMS) recently emerged as low-to-medium resolution method of structural analysis of proteins and their complexes. Here we present a robust workflow for XLMS analysis of bacterial transcriptional […]

ClusPro server tops the competition in the latest rounds of CAPRI experiment

CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions) is a community-wide experiment devoted to the prediction of protein complexes based on the structures of the component proteins. The results for targets 43-58 were evaluated at the Fifth CAPRI Evaluation Meeting in Utrecht in April 2013, for 63 predictor groups and 12 automated docking servers. Automatic protein docking […]