Computational approaches streamlining drug discovery

AV Sadybekov, V Katritch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Computer-aided drug discovery has been around for decades, although the past few years
have seen a tectonic shift towards embracing computational technologies in both academia …

AlphaFold2 and its applications in the fields of biology and medicine

Z Yang, X Zeng, Y Zhao, R Chen - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract AlphaFold2 (AF2) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by DeepMind
that can predict three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins from amino acid sequences …

Conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome

G Tesei, AI Trolle, N Jonsson, J Betz, FE Knudsen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (collectively, IDRs) are pervasive across
proteomes in all kingdoms of life, help to shape biological functions and are involved in …

Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

I Barrio-Hernandez, J Yeo, J Jänes, M Mirdita… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Proteins are key to all cellular processes and their structure is important in understanding
their function and evolution. Sequence-based predictions of protein structures have …

AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination

TC Terwilliger, D Liebschner, TI Croll, CJ Williams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction methods such as AlphaFold have
revolutionized structural biology. The accuracies of these predictions vary, however, and …

Mechanisms and pathology of protein misfolding and aggregation

N Louros, J Schymkowitz, F Rousseau - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in machine learning-based protein structure prediction, we are still far
from fully understanding how proteins fold into their native conformation. The conventional …

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

S Mosalaganti, A Obarska-Kosinska, M Siggel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic nucleus protects the genome and is enclosed by the two
membranes of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) perforate the nuclear …

Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2

D Del Alamo, D Sala, HS Mchaourab, J Meiler - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Equilibrium fluctuations and triggered conformational changes often underlie the functional
cycles of membrane proteins. For example, transporters mediate the passage of molecules …

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models

M Varadi, S Anyango, M Deshpande, S Nair… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB, https://alphafold. ebi. ac.
uk) is an openly accessible, extensive database of high-accuracy protein-structure …

Uncovering new families and folds in the natural protein universe

J Durairaj, AM Waterhouse, T Mets, T Brodiazhenko… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
We are now entering a new era in protein sequence and structure annotation, with hundreds
of millions of predicted protein structures made available through the AlphaFold database …