Felice C. Lightstone

This study analyzes the free energy and flexibility of autoinhibited human BRAF using molecular dynamics simulations based on a cryo-EM model to understand its activation mechanism.

This study develops an in vitro BRAF activation assay to elucidate molecular mechanisms of BRAF disassembly and identifies RAS binding as critical for activation.

This paper introduces a ligand-based featurization method to map human protein pockets and identify potential drug interactions by clustering proteins and evaluating compound associations.

PDBspheres identifies and evaluates structural similarities in protein regions near ligands using a library of over 2 million spheres and the LGA algorithm.

This study identifies disease mutations that perturb protein-protein interactions in the human 3D interactome, showing their association with cancer survival and drug response.