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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2024

Protein Design Using Structure-Prediction Networks: AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold as Protein Structure Foundation Models.

Jue Wang, Joseph L Watson, Sidney L Lisanza

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Jue WangDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA juewang@post.harvard.edu.
Joseph L WatsonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Sidney L LisanzaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing proteins with tailored structures and functions is a long-standing goal in bioengineering. Recently, deep learning advances have enabled protein structure prediction at near-experimental accuracy, which has catalyzed progress in protein design as well. We review recent studies that use structure-prediction neural networks to design proteins, via approaches such as activation maximization, inpainting, or denoising diffusion. These methods have led to major improvements over previous methods in wet-lab success rates for designing protein binders, metalloproteins, enzymes, and oligomeric assemblies. These results show that structure-prediction models are a powerful foundation for developing protein-design tools and suggest that continued improvement of their accuracy and generality will be key to unlocking the full potential of protein design.

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ProteinsModels, MolecularNeural Networks, ComputerProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringProtein FoldingProteins

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PMID38438190
PMCPMC11216169

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