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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Deep learning-guided design of dynamic proteins.

Amy B Guo, Deniz Akpinaroglu, Christina A Stephens, Michael Grabe, Colin A Smith, Mark J S Kelly, Tanja Kortemme

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Amy B GuoThe UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4775-9498
Deniz AkpinarogluThe UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Christina A StephensDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9382-003X
Michael GrabeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3509-5997
Colin A SmithDepartment of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4651-167X
Mark J S KellyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3209-1018
Tanja KortemmeThe UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8494-680X

Funding

Equipment Supplement - Computational design of proteins and protein functionsR35GM145236 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KORTEMME, TANJA · 2022 to 2025
$2.4M
Ion permeation, lipid flipping, and membrane remodeling by TMEM16 proteinsR01GM137109 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GRABE, MICHAEL · 2021 to 2024
$1.4M
A 600 MHz NMR console and cryoprobe for studies of macromolecules, drug discovery and cancer biomarkersS10OD023455 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GROSS, JOHN D · 2018 to 2018
$820k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137109NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145236NIH HHS S10 OD023455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep learning has advanced the design of static protein structures, but the controlled conformational changes that are hallmarks of natural signaling proteins have remained inaccessible to de novo design. Here, we describe a general deep learning-guided approach for de novo design of dynamic changes between intradomain geometries of proteins, similar to switch mechanisms prevalent in nature, with atomic-level precision. We solve four structures that validate the designed conformations, demonstrate modulation of the conformational landscape by orthosteric ligands and allosteric mutations, and show that physics-based simulations are in agreement with deep-learning predictions and experimental data. Our approach demonstrates that new modes of motion can now be realized through de novo design and provides a framework for constructing biology-inspired, tunable, and controllable protein signaling behavior de novo.

Indexed as

Deep LearningProtein EngineeringProteinsAllosteric RegulationLigandsMolecular Dynamics SimulationMutationProtein ConformationLigandsProteins

Identifiers

PMID40403060
PMCPMC13310074

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