[HTML][HTML] Metamorphic proteins and how to find them

LL Porter, I Artsimovitch… - Current opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, our existing notion that most foldable proteins have a unique native
state has been challenged by the discovery of metamorphic proteins, which reversibly …

The Potential of Neural Network Potentials

TT Duignan - ACS Physical Chemistry Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the next half-century, physical chemistry will likely undergo a profound transformation,
driven predominantly by the combination of recent advances in quantum chemistry and …

Explaining Conformational Diversity in Protein Families through Molecular Motions

V Lombard, S Grudinin, E Laine - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Proteins play a central role in biological processes, and understanding their conformational
variability is crucial for unraveling their functional mechanisms. Recent advancements in …

AlphaFold meets flow matching for generating protein ensembles

B Jing, B Berger, T Jaakkola - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04845, 2024 - arxiv.org
The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this
work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the …

[HTML][HTML] AlphaFold2 has more to learn about protein energy landscapes

D Chakravarty, JW Schafer, EA Chen, JR Thole… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent work suggests that AlphaFold2 (AF2)–a deep learning-based model that can
accurately infer protein structure from sequence–may discern important features of folded …

Probing Functional Allosteric States and Conformational Ensembles of the Allosteric Protein Kinase States and Mutants: Atomistic Modeling and Comparative Analysis …

N Raisinghani, M Alshahrani, G Gupta… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
This study reports a comprehensive analysis and comparison of several AlphaFold2
adaptations and OmegaFold and AlphaFlow approaches in predicting distinct allosteric …

An ancestral fold reveals the evolutionary link between RNA polymerase and ribosomal proteins

S Yagi, S Tagami - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Numerous molecular machines are required to drive the central dogma of molecular biology.
However, the means by which these numerous proteins emerged in the early evolutionary …

Enabling structure-based drug discovery utilizing predicted models

EB Miller, H Hwang, M Shelley, A Placzek… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
High-quality predicted structures enable structure-based approaches to an expanding
number of drug discovery programs. We propose that by utilizing free energy perturbation …

Integration of a Randomized Sequence Scanning Approach in AlphaFold2 and Local Frustration Profiling of Conformational States Enable Interpretable Atomistic …

N Raisinghani, M Alshahrani, G Gupta… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Despite the success of AlphaFold methods in predicting single protein structures, these
methods showed intrinsic limitations in the characterization of multiple functional …

Interpretable Atomistic Prediction and Functional Analysis of Conformational Ensembles and Allosteric States in Protein Kinases Using AlphaFold2 Adaptation with …

N Raisinghani, M Alshahrani, G Gupta, H Tian, S Xiao… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The groundbreaking achievements of AlphaFold2 (AF2) approaches in protein structure
modeling marked a transformative era in structural biology. Despite the success of AF2 tools …