We identified the first small-molecule protein-protein interaction inhibitors of RUNX1/ETO tetramerization applying structure-based virtual screening guided by predicted hot spots and pockets in the interface. A 3D similarity screening revealed specific hot spot mimetics, one of which prevents the proliferation of RUNX1/ETO-dependent SKNO-1 cells at low micromolar concentration. Using solely a ...

Thermococcus kodakaraensis (strain KOD1), previously thought to be a Pyrococcus sp., is a hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from a solfataric hot spring on Kodakara Island, Japan (Atomi 2004). In preliminary studies to characterize the KOD1 DNA polymerase, researchers found that the enzyme had fidelity comparable to Pfu DNA polymerase, but with an extension rate (referred to as speed) 5 times ...

We consider parallel decomposition techniques for solving the large quadratic programming (QP) problems arising in training support vector machines. A recent technique is improved by introducing an efficient solver for the inner QP subproblems and a preprocessing step useful to hot start the decomposition strategy. The effectiveness of the proposed improvements is evaluated by solving large-sca...