I-TASSER-MTD: a deep-learning-based platform for multi-domain protein structure and function prediction

X Zhou, W Zheng, Y Li, R Pearce, C Zhang, EW Bell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most proteins in cells are composed of multiple folding units (or domains) to perform
complex functions in a cooperative manner. Relative to the rapid progress in single-domain …

Advances and utility of the human plasma proteome

EW Deutsch, GS Omenn, Z Sun, M Maes… - Journal of proteome …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The study of proteins circulating in blood offers tremendous opportunities to diagnose,
stratify, or possibly prevent diseases. With recent technological advances and the urgent …

Automated model building and protein identification in cryo-EM maps

K Jamali, L Käll, R Zhang, A Brown, D Kimanius… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Interpreting electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) maps with atomic models requires high
levels of expertise and labour-intensive manual intervention in three-dimensional computer …

Improvement of cryo-EM maps by simultaneous local and non-local deep learning

J He, T Li, SY Huang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-EM has emerged as the most important technique for structure determination of
macromolecular complexes. However, raw cryo-EM maps often exhibit loss of contrast at …

AlphaFold2 reveals commonalities and novelties in protein structure space for 21 model organisms

N Bordin, I Sillitoe, V Nallapareddy, C Rauer… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Deep-learning (DL) methods like DeepMind's AlphaFold2 (AF2) have led to substantial
improvements in protein structure prediction. We analyse confident AF2 models from 21 …

Model building of protein complexes from intermediate-resolution cryo-EM maps with deep learning-guided automatic assembly

J He, P Lin, J Chen, H Cao, SY Huang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in microscopy instruments and image processing algorithms have led to an
increasing number of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps. However, building accurate …

Protein structure and folding pathway prediction based on remote homologs recognition using PAthreader

K Zhao, Y **a, F Zhang, X Zhou, SZ Li… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Recognition of remote homologous structures is a necessary module in AlphaFold2 and is
also essential for the exploration of protein folding pathways. Here, we propose a method …

Deep learning-based advances in protein structure prediction

SC Pakhrin, B Shrestha, B Adhikari, DB Kc - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Obtaining an accurate description of protein structure is a fundamental step toward
understanding the underpinning of biology. Although recent advances in experimental …

Multi-domain and complex protein structure prediction using inter-domain interactions from deep learning

Y **a, K Zhao, D Liu, X Zhou, G Zhang - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Accurately capturing domain-domain interactions is key to understanding protein function
and designing structure-based drugs. Although AlphaFold2 has made a breakthrough on …

DeepUMQA: ultrafast shape recognition-based protein model quality assessment using deep learning

SS Guo, J Liu, XG Zhou, GJ Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein model quality assessment is a key component of protein structure
prediction. In recent research, the voxelization feature was used to characterize the local …