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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2023

Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction.

Thomas C Terwilliger, Pavel V Afonine, Dorothee Liebschner, Tristan I Croll, Airlie J McCoy, Robert D Oeffner, Christopher J Williams, Billy K Poon, Jane S Richardson, Randy J Read and 1 more

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Thomas C TerwilligerNew Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6384-0320
Pavel V AfonineMolecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5052-991X
Dorothee LiebschnerMolecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3921-3209
Tristan I CrollDepartment of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.
Airlie J McCoyDepartment of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.
Robert D OeffnerDepartment of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3107-2202
Christopher J WilliamsDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Billy K PoonMolecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9633-6067
Jane S RichardsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3311-2944
Randy J ReadDepartment of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8273-0047
Paul D AdamsMolecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9333-8219

Funding

PROJECT 5 - DUKE - STRUCTURE VALIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR PROTEINS AND N. ACIDSP01GM063210 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI ADAMS, PAUL DAVID · 2001 to 2021
$33.5M
Extending MolProbity Diagnosis & Healing Methods to Empower Better CryoEM & Xray Models at 2.5-4A Resolution, plus Versioned, Redeposited "GEMS" for Important Individual StructuresR35GM131883 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RICHARDSON, DAVID CLAUDE · 2019 to 2022
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM063210NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131883Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 209407/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experimental structure determination can be accelerated with artificial intelligence (AI)-based structure-prediction methods such as AlphaFold. Here, an automatic procedure requiring only sequence information and crystallographic data is presented that uses AlphaFold predictions to produce an electron-density map and a structural model. Iterating through cycles of structure prediction is a key element of this procedure: a predicted model rebuilt in one cycle is used as a template for prediction in the next cycle. This procedure was applied to X-ray data for 215 structures released by the Protein Data Bank in a recent six-month period. In 87% of cases our procedure yielded a model with at least 50% of C

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Artificial IntelligenceCrystallographyDatabases, ProteinModels, StructuralAlphaFoldartificial intelligenceautomated structure determinationmodel building

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PMID36876433
PMCPMC9986801

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