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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Machine Learning Generation of Dynamic Protein Conformational Ensembles.

Li-E Zheng, Shrishti Barethiya, Erik Nordquist, Jianhan Chen

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Predicting multiple conformations of ligand binding sites in proteins suggests that AlphaFold2 may remember too much.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Li-E ZhengDepartment of Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China.
Shrishti BarethiyaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Erik NordquistDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9139-0152
Jianhan ChenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5281-1150

Funding

Disordered Proteins and Dynamic Interactions in Biology and Diseases.R35GM144045 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI Jianhan Chen · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM144045
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning has achieved remarkable success across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines, particularly its use for predicting native protein structures from sequence information alone. However, biomolecules are inherently dynamic, and there is a pressing need for accurate predictions of dynamic structural ensembles across multiple functional levels. These problems range from the relatively well-defined task of predicting conformational dynamics around the native state of a protein, which traditional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are particularly adept at handling, to generating large-scale conformational transitions connecting distinct functional states of structured proteins or numerous marginally stable states within the dynamic ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins. Machine learning has been increasingly applied to learn low-dimensional representations of protein conformational spaces, which can then be used to drive additional MD sampling or directly generate novel conformations. These methods promise to greatly reduce the computational cost of generating dynamic protein ensembles, compared to traditional MD simulations. In this review, we examine recent progress in machine learning approaches towards generative modeling of dynamic protein ensembles and emphasize the crucial importance of integrating advances in machine learning, structural data, and physical principles to achieve these ambitious goals.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsMachine LearningMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsautoencoderBoltzmann generatorcollective variabledimension reductionenhanced samplinggenerative adversarial networklatent spaceneural networkphysics-informed machine learningtransfer learning

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PMID37241789
PMCPMC10220786

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