James J Havranek

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Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Motif-directed flexible backbone design of functional interactions
    James J Havranek
    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Protein Sci 18:1293-305. 2009
  2. ncbi Specificity in computational protein design
    James J Havranek
    Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Biol Chem 285:31095-9. 2010
  3. ncbi Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design
    Summer B Thyme
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Nature 461:1300-4. 2009
  4. ncbi Computational reprogramming of homing endonuclease specificity at multiple adjacent base pairs
    Justin Ashworth
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 38:5601-8. 2010
  5. ncbi Computational redesign of endonuclease DNA binding and cleavage specificity
    Justin Ashworth
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Nature 441:656-9. 2006
  6. ncbi High-resolution structural and thermodynamic analysis of extreme stabilization of human procarboxypeptidase by computational protein design
    Gautam Dantas
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    J Mol Biol 366:1209-21. 2007
  7. ncbi Rosetta in CAPRI rounds 13-19
    Sarel J Fleishman
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Proteins 78:3212-8. 2010
  8. ncbi A simple physical model for the prediction and design of protein-DNA interactions
    James J Havranek
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    J Mol Biol 344:59-70. 2004
  9. ncbi Automated selection of stabilizing mutations in designed and natural proteins
    Benjamin Borgo
    Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:1494-9. 2012
  10. ncbi ROSETTA3: an object-oriented software suite for the simulation and design of macromolecules
    Andrew Leaver-Fay
    Department of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Methods Enzymol 487:545-74. 2011

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Publications10

  1. ncbi Motif-directed flexible backbone design of functional interactions
    James J Havranek
    Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Protein Sci 18:1293-305. 2009
    ..We compare the efficiency of this method with the alternative approach of building and screening alternate backbone conformations...
  2. ncbi Specificity in computational protein design
    James J Havranek
    Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Biol Chem 285:31095-9. 2010
    ..Although specificity may, in some cases, be achieved by optimization of a desired protein in isolation, methods have been developed to address directly the desire for proteins that exhibit specific functions and interactions...
  3. ncbi Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design
    Summer B Thyme
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Nature 461:1300-4. 2009
    ..Our results illustrate how classical enzymology and modern protein design can each inform the other...
  4. ncbi Computational reprogramming of homing endonuclease specificity at multiple adjacent base pairs
    Justin Ashworth
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 38:5601-8. 2010
    ....
  5. ncbi Computational redesign of endonuclease DNA binding and cleavage specificity
    Justin Ashworth
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Nature 441:656-9. 2006
    ..These results suggest that computational protein design methods can have an important role in the creation of novel highly specific endonucleases for gene therapy and other applications...
  6. ncbi High-resolution structural and thermodynamic analysis of extreme stabilization of human procarboxypeptidase by computational protein design
    Gautam Dantas
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    J Mol Biol 366:1209-21. 2007
    ....
  7. ncbi Rosetta in CAPRI rounds 13-19
    Sarel J Fleishman
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
    Proteins 78:3212-8. 2010
    ..Analysis of our failures in the CAPRI challenges suggest that conformational sampling at the termini of exposed beta strands is a particularly pressing area for improvement...
  8. ncbi A simple physical model for the prediction and design of protein-DNA interactions
    James J Havranek
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    J Mol Biol 344:59-70. 2004
    ..When combined with algorithms that optimize specificity directly, the simple computational model developed here should be useful for the engineering of proteins with novel DNA-binding specificities...
  9. ncbi Automated selection of stabilizing mutations in designed and natural proteins
    Benjamin Borgo
    Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:1494-9. 2012
    ..We believe our method will be a valuable tool for both improving upon designed proteins and conferring increased stability upon native proteins...
  10. ncbi ROSETTA3: an object-oriented software suite for the simulation and design of macromolecules
    Andrew Leaver-Fay
    Department of Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Methods Enzymol 487:545-74. 2011
    ..This chapter describes the requirements for our new architecture, justifies the design decisions, sketches out central classes, and highlights a few of the common tasks that the new software can perform...