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ArticleNature communications2023

Local energetic frustration conservation in protein families and superfamilies.

Maria I Freiberger, Victoria Ruiz-Serra, Camila Pontes, Miguel Romero-Durana, Pablo Galaz-Davison, Cesar A Ramírez-Sarmiento, Claudio D Schuster, Marcelo A Marti, Peter G Wolynes, Diego U Ferreiro and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Maria I Freiberger *Laboratorio de Fisiología de Proteínas, Departamento de Química Biológica - IQUIBICEN/CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-5634-1897
Victoria Ruiz-Serra *Computational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3991-0514
Camila PontesComputational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8726-3641
Miguel Romero-DuranaComputational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6779-8553
Pablo Galaz-DavisonInstitute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 7820436, Chile.
Cesar A Ramírez-SarmientoInstitute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-4647-903X
Claudio D SchusterLaboratorio de Bioinformática, Departamento de Química Biológica - IQUIBICEN/CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-4002-3840
Marcelo A MartiLaboratorio de Bioinformática, Departamento de Química Biológica - IQUIBICEN/CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-7911-9340
Peter G WolynesCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7975-9287
Diego U FerreiroLaboratorio de Fisiología de Proteínas, Departamento de Química Biológica - IQUIBICEN/CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, C1428EGA, Argentina.
R Gonzalo ParraComputational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain. gonzalo.parra@bsc.es.ORCID 0000-0003-2446-016X
Alfonso ValenciaComputational Biology Group, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8937-6789

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Energetic local frustration offers a biophysical perspective to interpret the effects of sequence variability on protein families. Here we present a methodology to analyze local frustration patterns within protein families and superfamilies that allows us to uncover constraints related to stability and function, and identify differential frustration patterns in families with a common ancestry. We analyze these signals in very well studied protein families such as PDZ, SH3, ɑ and β globins and RAS families. Recent advances in protein structure prediction make it possible to analyze a vast majority of the protein space. An automatic and unsupervised proteome-wide analysis on the SARS-CoV-2 virus demonstrates the potential of our approach to enhance our understanding of the natural phenotypic diversity of protein families beyond single protein instances. We apply our method to modify biophysical properties of natural proteins based on their family properties, as well as perform unsupervised analysis of large datasets to shed light on the physicochemical signatures of poorly characterized proteins such as the ones belonging to emergent pathogens.

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