RNA2: Last week's take home lessons

11/5/01


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Table of Contents

Biophysics 101 Genomics and Computational Biology

RNA2: Last week's take home lessons

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Palindromicity

Is there a code for protein interactions with DNA or RNA?

Interactions of Adjacent Basepairs in EGR1 Zinc Finger DNA Recognition

Motifs: weight all 64 Kaapp

Combinatorial arrays for binding constants

Ka apparent

DNA binding

A code for protein interactions with RNAs?

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Real world programming (3D + time)

Scary proteins

Protein programming time scales

What good are 3D protein structures?

Structure Based Drug Design

Covalently trapped catalytic complex of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: implications for drug resistance

3D structure & chemical genetics

Compensating steric hinderance in DNA polymerases

Real world programming with proteins

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Altered specificity mutants (continued)

SNPs & Covariance in proteins

Prediction of deleterious human alleles

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Oligonucleotide synthesis

Oligo -peptide & -nucleotide synthesis cycles

Nucleotide protecting groups

Modified backbones (for stability)

Biochemical diversity

Polyketide engineering

Non-computational interaction assays

Combinatorial target-guided ligand assembly: identification of potent subtype-selective c-Src inhibitors.

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Computational protein target selection

Given many genome sequences (of accuracy 99.99%)

Measuring 3D protein family relationships

Structural genomics projects

Programming cells via membrane proteins

Membrane protein 3D structures

Transmembrane prediction

"function from structure"

Where do 3D structures come from?

NMR distance-constrained ensembles Crystallographic phases & electron density

Crystallographic refinement

Crystallography & NMR System(CNS) X-plor

Measure Structure Quality

Protein1: Today's story & goals

20 Amino acids of 280

Favored peptide conformations

Molecular dynamics (Energy minimization, trajectories, approximations)

Molecular mechanics

Small protein molecular dynamics (only water as ligand)

Docking

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Top 10 drugs (20-42 M units/yr of 1.6 G units)

Estrogen Receptor DNA binding domain

Estrogen Binding Domain

Avoiding receptor cross-talk

A chemical switch for inhibitor-sensitive alleles of any protein kinase.

Protein1: Today's story & goals

Author: George Church

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