Modeling conformational states of proteins with AlphaFold

D Sala, F Engelberger, HS Mchaourab… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many proteins exert their function by switching among different structures. Knowing the
conformational ensembles affiliated with these states is critical to elucidate key mechanistic …

Sparks of function by de novo protein design

AE Chu, T Lu, PS Huang - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Information in proteins flows from sequence to structure to function, with each step
causally driven by the preceding one. Protein design is founded on inverting this process …

Generalized biomolecular modeling and design with RoseTTAFold All-Atom

R Krishna, J Wang, W Ahern, P Sturmfels, P Venkatesh… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Deep-learning methods have revolutionized protein structure prediction and design but are
presently limited to protein-only systems. We describe RoseTTAFold All-Atom (RFAA), which …

Accurate prediction of protein–nucleic acid complexes using RoseTTAFoldNA

M Baek, R McHugh, I Anishchenko, H Jiang, D Baker… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Protein–RNA and protein–DNA complexes play critical roles in biology. Despite
considerable recent advances in protein structure prediction, the prediction of the structures …

De novo design of high-affinity binders of bioactive helical peptides

S Vázquez Torres, PJY Leung, P Venkatesh, ID Lutz… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Many peptide hormones form an α-helix on binding their receptors,,–, and sensitive methods
for their detection could contribute to better clinical management of disease. De novo protein …

SARS-CoV-2 nsp3 and nsp4 are minimal constituents of a pore spanning replication organelle

L Zimmermann, X Zhao, J Makroczyova… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coronavirus replication is associated with the remodeling of cellular membranes, resulting
in the formation of double-membrane vesicles (DMVs). A DMV-spanning pore was identified …

xTrimoPGLM: unified 100B-scale pre-trained transformer for deciphering the language of protein

B Chen, X Cheng, P Li, Y Geng, J Gong, S Li… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Protein language models have shown remarkable success in learning biological information
from protein sequences. However, most existing models are limited by either autoencoding …

Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion

SL Lisanza, JM Gershon, SWK Tipps, JN Sims… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Protein denoising diffusion probabilistic models are used for the de novo generation of
protein backbones but are limited in their ability to guide generation of proteins with …

CombFold: predicting structures of large protein assemblies using a combinatorial assembly algorithm and AlphaFold2

B Shor, D Schneidman-Duhovny - Nature methods, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning models, such as AlphaFold2 and RosettaFold, enable high-accuracy protein
structure prediction. However, large protein complexes are still challenging to predict due to …

Can AlphaFold's breakthrough in protein structure help decode the fundamental principles of adaptive cellular immunity?

B McMaster, C Thorpe, G Ogg, CM Deane, H Koohy - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
T cells are essential immune cells responsible for identifying and eliminating pathogens.
Through interactions between their T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs) and antigens presented …