Poxviruses, African swine fever virus (ASFV), and bacteriophages have independently evolved nucleases that degrade cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs), which are critical second messengers that mediate antiviral responses. This Pearl synthesizes recent advancements in our understanding of viral CDN-degrading nucleases and emphasizes three key themes. First, there is the conservation of CDN signaling mechanisms across different biological domains. Second, we observe the diverse structural adaptations of viral nucleases for CDN degradation. Finally, structural protein folds are conserved, allowing for functional replacements across species. Additionally, we discuss the therapeutic potential of targeting these nucleases with resistant CDN analogues and through structure-guided drug discovery. This convergence in viral immune evasion strategies provides valuable insights into the development of broad-spectrum antiviral therapies and offers new opportunities for enhancing immune responses in therapeutic contexts.
The comparison of adopter and non-adopter sample reveals three potential adoption inhibitor, security, data privacy, and portability, which underlines the importance of the technical and security perspectives for research investigating the adoption of technology.
Nattakarn Phaphoom, Xiaofeng Wang, S. Samuel et al.· Journal of Systems and Softw...· 111 citations· ⚡8
This study investigates how Lean internal startup facilitates software product innovation in large companies and identifies its enablers and inhibitors, and shows the potential of the method-in-action framework to investigate the Lean startup approach in non-startup context.
Henry Edison, Nina M. Smørsgård, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· Journal of Systems and Softw...· 78 citations· ⚡6
This paper highlights the challenges to conduct proper affect-related studies with psychology, provides a comprehensive literature review in affect theory, and proposes guidelines for conducting psychoempirical software engineering.
D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· SSE@SIGSOFT FSE· 56 citations· ⚡4
This study conducts a multiple case study on twenty European software startups and proposes a prototype-centric learning model in early stage software startups, and identifies factors that occur as barriers but also facilitators for prototyping in earlystage software startups.
Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 44 citations· ⚡5
It is demonstrated that linker-free PROTACs can outperform traditional designs, marking a paradigm shift in PROTAC development for targeted protein degradation.
Pinal, a 16-billion-parameter foundation model that produces protein candidates from natural-language functional descriptions, supports natural language as a high-level interface for candidate generation in protein design, enabling programmable exploration with reduced reliance on manually specified structural or seque...
A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.
