Search Results - "Loeffler, Johannes R"
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Characterizing the Diversity of the CDR-H3 Loop Conformational Ensembles in Relationship to Antibody Binding Properties
Published in Frontiers in immunology (07-01-2019)“…We present an approach to assess antibody CDR-H3 loops according to their dynamic properties using molecular dynamics simulations. We selected six antibodies…”
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Conformational selection of allergen-antibody complexes-surface plasticity of paratopes and epitopes
Published in Protein engineering, design and selection (31-12-2019)“…Antibodies have the ability to bind various types of antigens and to recognize different antibody-binding sites (epitopes) of the same antigen with different…”
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T-Cell Receptor CDR3 Loop Conformations in Solution Shift the Relative Vα-Vβ Domain Distributions
Published in Frontiers in immunology (08-07-2020)“…T-cell receptors are an important part in the adaptive immune system as they are responsible for detecting foreign proteins presented by the major…”
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Inhibitors of Fumarylacetoacetate Hydrolase Domain Containing Protein 1 (FAHD1)
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (18-08-2021)“…(FAHD1) acts as oxaloacetate decarboxylase in mitochondria, contributing to the regulation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Guided by a high-resolution X-ray…”
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Transitions of CDR-L3 Loop Canonical Cluster Conformations on the Micro-to-Millisecond Timescale
Published in Frontiers in immunology (19-11-2019)“…Sequence and structural diversity of antibodies are concentrated on six hypervariable loops, also known as the complementarity determining regions (CDRs). Five…”
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Germline-Dependent Antibody Paratope States and Pairing Specific VH-VL Interface Dynamics
Published in Frontiers in immunology (10-08-2021)“…Antibodies have emerged as one of the fastest growing classes of biotherapeutic proteins. To improve the rational design of antibodies, we investigate the…”
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Local and Global Rigidification Upon Antibody Affinity Maturation
Published in Frontiers in molecular biosciences (07-08-2020)“…During the affinity maturation process the immune system produces antibodies with higher specificity and activity through various rounds of somatic…”
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Surprisingly Fast Interface and Elbow Angle Dynamics of Antigen-Binding Fragments
Published in Frontiers in molecular biosciences (24-11-2020)“…Fab consist of a heavy and light chain and can be subdivided into a variable (V and V ) and a constant region (C 1 and C ). The variable region contains the…”
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Conformational Shifts of Stacked Heteroaromatics: Vacuum vs. Water Studied by Machine Learning
Published in Frontiers in chemistry (26-03-2021)“…Stacking interactions play a crucial role in drug design, as we can find aromatic cores or scaffolds in almost any available small molecule drug. To predict…”
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Comparing Antibody Interfaces to Inform Rational Design of New Antibody Formats
Published in Frontiers in molecular biosciences (26-01-2022)“…As the current biotherapeutic market is dominated by antibodies, the design of different antibody formats, like bispecific antibodies and other new formats,…”
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Structure and Dynamics Guiding Design of Antibody Therapeutics and Vaccines
Published in Antibodies (Basel) (18-10-2023)“…Antibodies and other new antibody-like formats have emerged as one of the most rapidly growing classes of biotherapeutic proteins. Understanding the structural…”
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Corrigendum: Comparing Antibody Interfaces to Inform Rational Design of New Antibody Formats
Published in Frontiers in molecular biosciences (15-02-2022)“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.812750.]…”
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Coil–Globule Transition Thermodynamics of Poly(N‑isopropylacrylamide)
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (17-10-2019)“…Thermosensitive polymers such as poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) undergo a phase transition in aqueous solution from a random-coil structural ensemble to…”
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Hydration of Aromatic Heterocycles as an Adversary of π‑Stacking
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (28-10-2019)“…Hydration is one of the key players in the protein–ligand binding process. It not only influences the binding process per se, but also the drug’s absorption,…”
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Thermosensitive Hydration of Four Acrylamide-Based Polymers in Coil and Globule Conformations
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (29-10-2020)“…To characterize the thermosensitive coil–globule transition in atomistic detail, the conformational dynamics of linear polymer chains of acrylamide-based…”
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CosolvKit: a Versatile Tool for Cosolvent MD Preparation and Analysis
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (11-11-2024)“…Cosolvent molecular dynamics (MDs) are an increasingly popular form of simulations where small molecule cosolvents are added to water-solvated protein systems…”
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STACKED - S olvation T heory of A romatic C omplexes as K ey for E stimating D rug Binding
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (27-04-2020)“…The use of fragments to biophysically characterize a protein binding pocket and determine the strengths of certain interactions is a computationally and…”
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Paratope states in solution improve structure prediction and docking
Published in Structure (London) (03-03-2022)“…Structure-based antibody design and accurate predictions of antibody-antigen interactions remain major challenges in computational biology. By using molecular…”
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The fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) superfamily of enzymes: multifunctional enzymes from microbes to mitochondria
Published in Biochemical Society transactions (17-04-2018)“…Prokaryotic and eukaryotic fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) superfamily members, sharing conserved regions that form the so-called FAH-domain, catalyze a…”
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PEP-Patch: Electrostatics in Protein-Protein Recognition, Specificity, and Antibody Developability
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (27-11-2023)“…The electrostatic properties of proteins arise from the number and distribution of polar and charged residues. Electrostatic interactions in proteins play a…”
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