<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Week 5 HW: Protein design part 2 :: 2026a-ganapathi-naayagam</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/ganapathi-naayagam/homework/week-05-hw-protein-design-part-ii/index.html</link><description>Design short peptides that bind mutant SOD1. Then decide which ones are worth advancing toward therapy. Uniprot SOD1 protein sequence:
sp|P00441|SODC_HUMAN Superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn] OS=Homo sapiens OX=9606 GN=SOD1 PE=1 SV=2 MATKAVCVLKGDGPVQGIINFEQKESNGPVKVWGSIKGLTEGLHGFHVHEFGDNTAGCTS AGPHFNPLSRKHGGPKDEERHVGDLGNVTADKDGVADVSIEDSVISLSGDHCIIGRTLVV HEKADDLGKGGNEESTKTGNAGSRLACGVIGIAQ
Apply A4V mutation: (ignoring Methionine) The Bolded V used to be A MATKVVCVLKGDGPVQGIINFEQKESNGPVKVWGSIKGLTEGLHGFHVHEFGDNTAGCTS AGPHFNPLSRKHGGPKDEERHVGDLGNVTADKDGVADVSIEDSVISLSGDHCIIGRTLVV HEKADDLGKGGNEESTKTGNAGSRLACGVIGIAQ
Pepmlm Generated peptides and their perplexity score:</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026a/ganapathi-naayagam/homework/week-05-hw-protein-design-part-ii/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>