Papers by Piotr Rotkiewicz
Cancer research, Jan 15, 2005
The GD2 ganglioside expressed on neuroectodermally derived tumors, including neuroblastoma and me... more The GD2 ganglioside expressed on neuroectodermally derived tumors, including neuroblastoma and melanoma, is weakly immunogenic in tumor-bearing patients and induces predominantly immunoglobulin (Ig)-M antibody responses in the immunized host. Here, we investigated whether interconversion of GD2 into a peptide mimetic form would induce GD2 cross-reactive IgG antibody responses in mice. Screening of the X(15) phage display peptide library with the anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody (mAb) 14G2a led to isolation of mimetic peptide 47, which inhibited the binding of 14G2a antibody to GD2-positive tumor cells. The peptide was also recognized by GD2-specific serum antibodies from a patient with neuroblastoma, suggesting that it bears an internal image of GD2 ganglioside expressed on the tumor cells. The molecular basis for antigenicity of the GD2 mimetic peptide, established by molecular modeling and mutagenesis studies, led to the generation of a 47-LDA mutant with an increased mimicry to GD2. ...
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Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2013
Background Proteins are known to be dynamic in nature, changing from one conformation to another ... more Background Proteins are known to be dynamic in nature, changing from one conformation to another while performing vital cellular tasks. It is important to understand these movements in order to better understand protein function. At the same time, experimental techniques provide us with only single snapshots of the whole ensemble of available conformations. Computational protein morphing provides a visualization of a protein structure transitioning from one conformation to another by producing a series of intermediate conformations. Results We present a novel, efficient morphing algorithm, Morph-Pro based on linear interpolation. We also show that apart from visualization, morphing can be used to provide plausible intermediate structures. We test this by using the intermediate structures of a c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK1) conformational change in a virtual docking experiment. The structures are shown to dock with higher score to known JNK1-binding ligands than structures solved usi...
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ChemMedChem, 2018
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J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol, 2009
We employ a new computational tool CCOMP for the comparison of side chain (SC) conformations betw... more We employ a new computational tool CCOMP for the comparison of side chain (SC) conformations between crystal structures of homologous protein complexes. The program is applied to the vitamin D receptor (VDR) liganded with 1α,25-(OH)2D3 (in 1DB1) or its 20-epi (in 1IE9) analog with an inverted C-20 configuration. This modification yields no detectable changes in the backbone configuration or ligand topology in the receptor binding cavity, yet it dramatically increases transcription, differentiation and antiproliferation activity of the VDR. We applied very stringent criteria during the comparison process. To eliminate errors arising from the different packing of investigated crystals and the thermal flexibility of atoms, we studied complexes belonging to the same space group, having a low R value (0.2) and a B-factor below 40 for compared residues. We find that 20-epi-1α,25-(OH)2D3 changes side chain conformation of amino acids residing far away from direct ligand–VDR contacts. We further verify that a number of the reoriented residues were identified in mutational experiments as important for interaction with SRC-1, GRIP, TAFs co-activators and VDR-RXR heterodimerization. Thus, CCOMP analysis of protein complexes may be used for identifying amino acids that could serve as targets for genetic engineering, such as mutagenesis.
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J Med Chem, 2002
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Proceedings of Hrlc Workshop, 1998
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2015
The PDBFlex database, available freely and with no login requirements at http://pdbflex.org, prov... more The PDBFlex database, available freely and with no login requirements at http://pdbflex.org, provides information on flexibility of protein structures as revealed by the analysis of variations between depositions of different structural models of the same protein in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). PDBFlex collects information on all instances of such depositions, identifying them by a 95% sequence identity threshold, performs analysis of their structural differences and clusters them according to their structural similarities for easy analysis. The PDBFlex contains tools and viewers enabling in-depth examination of structural variability including: 2D-scaling visualization of RMSD distances between structures of the same protein, graphs of average local RMSD in the aligned structures of protein chains, graphical presentation of differences in secondary structure and observed structural disorder (unresolved residues), difference distance maps between all sets of coordinates and 3D views of individual structures and simulated transitions between different conformations, the latter displayed using JSMol visualization software.
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The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2004
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Journal of Molecular Biology, Jun 1, 2009
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Polish Journal of Chemistry, 2001
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The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mar 31, 2007
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Cancer research, Jan 15, 2005
The GD2 ganglioside expressed on neuroectodermally derived tumors, including neuroblastoma and me... more The GD2 ganglioside expressed on neuroectodermally derived tumors, including neuroblastoma and melanoma, is weakly immunogenic in tumor-bearing patients and induces predominantly immunoglobulin (Ig)-M antibody responses in the immunized host. Here, we investigated whether interconversion of GD2 into a peptide mimetic form would induce GD2 cross-reactive IgG antibody responses in mice. Screening of the X(15) phage display peptide library with the anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody (mAb) 14G2a led to isolation of mimetic peptide 47, which inhibited the binding of 14G2a antibody to GD2-positive tumor cells. The peptide was also recognized by GD2-specific serum antibodies from a patient with neuroblastoma, suggesting that it bears an internal image of GD2 ganglioside expressed on the tumor cells. The molecular basis for antigenicity of the GD2 mimetic peptide, established by molecular modeling and mutagenesis studies, led to the generation of a 47-LDA mutant with an increased mimicry to GD2. ...
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The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2007
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Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, 2001
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Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, 2001
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