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ArticleNature biotechnology2022

Single-sequence protein structure prediction using a language model and deep learning.

Ratul Chowdhury, Nazim Bouatta, Surojit Biswas, Christina Floristean, Anant Kharkar, Koushik Roy, Charlotte Rochereau, Gustaf Ahdritz, Joanna Zhang, George M Church and 2 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 203 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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203 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Ratul Chowdhury *Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Program in Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Nazim Bouatta *Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Program in Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. nazim_bouatta@hms.harvard.edu.
Surojit Biswas *Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Christina Floristean *Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Anant KharkarDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Koushik RoyDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Charlotte RochereauIntegrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Gustaf AhdritzDepartment of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8283-5324
Joanna ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
George M ChurchLaboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Program in Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Peter K SorgerLaboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Program in Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. peter_sorger@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3364-1838
Mohammed AlQuraishiDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. ma4129@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-1322

Funding

Systems Pharmacology of Therapeutic and Adverse Responses to ImmuneCheckpoint and Small Molecule DrugsU54CA225088 · NCI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SORGER, PETER KARL · 2018 to 2022
$10.8M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA225088
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AlphaFold2 and related computational systems predict protein structure using deep learning and co-evolutionary relationships encoded in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). Despite high prediction accuracy achieved by these systems, challenges remain in (1) prediction of orphan and rapidly evolving proteins for which an MSA cannot be generated; (2) rapid exploration of designed structures; and (3) understanding the rules governing spontaneous polypeptide folding in solution. Here we report development of an end-to-end differentiable recurrent geometric network (RGN) that uses a protein language model (AminoBERT) to learn latent structural information from unaligned proteins. A linked geometric module compactly represents C

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Deep LearningComputational BiologyLanguageProtein ConformationProteinsSequence AlignmentProteins

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PMCPMC10440047

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