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 …

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 …

Folding non-homologous proteins by coupling deep-learning contact maps with I-TASSER assembly simulations

W Zheng, C Zhang, Y Li, R Pearce, EW Bell… - Cell reports methods, 2021 - cell.com
Structure prediction for proteins lacking homologous templates in the Protein Data Bank
(PDB) remains a significant unsolved problem. We developed a protocol, CI-TASSER, to …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning in protein structure prediction

M AlQuraishi - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction of protein structure from sequence has been intensely studied for many decades,
owing to the problem's importance and its uniquely well-defined physical and computational …

Improving deep learning protein monomer and complex structure prediction using DeepMSA2 with huge metagenomics data

W Zheng, Q Wuyun, Y Li, C Zhang, PL Freddolino… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Leveraging iterative alignment search through genomic and metagenome sequence
databases, we report the DeepMSA2 pipeline for uniform protein single-and multichain …

Transformer protein language models are unsupervised structure learners

R Rao, J Meier, T Sercu, S Ovchinnikov, A Rives - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Unsupervised contact prediction is central to uncovering physical, structural, and functional
constraints for protein structure determination and design. For decades, the predominant …

Self-play reinforcement learning guides protein engineering

Y Wang, H Tang, L Huang, L Pan, L Yang… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Designing protein sequences towards desired properties is a fundamental goal of protein
engineering, with applications in drug discovery and enzymatic engineering. Machine …

Toward the solution of the protein structure prediction problem

R Pearce, Y Zhang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Since Anfinsen demonstrated that the information encoded in a protein's amino acid
sequence determines its structure in 1973, solving the protein structure prediction problem …

Deep learning techniques have significantly impacted protein structure prediction and protein design

R Pearce, Y Zhang - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights⿢The recent use of deep learning has dramatically improved the accuracy of non-
homologous protein structure modeling.⿢Protein structure prediction problem was largely …

Deep learning in proteomics

B Wen, WF Zeng, Y Liao, Z Shi, SR Savage… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Proteomics, the study of all the proteins in biological systems, is becoming a data‐rich
science. Protein sequences and structures are comprehensively catalogued in online …