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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Accurate Generation of Conformational Ensembles for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins with IDPFold.

Junjie Zhu, Zhengxin Li, Zhuoqi Zheng, Bo Zhang, Bozitao Zhong, Jie Bai, Xiaokun Hong, Taifeng Wang, Ting Wei, Jianyi Yang and 1 more

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Junjie ZhuState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Zhengxin LiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Zhuoqi ZhengState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Bo ZhangState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Bozitao ZhongState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Jie BaiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Xiaokun HongCollege of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350116, China.
Taifeng WangBioMap, 10 Beilun Industrial Park, Yongteng North Road, Beijing, 100080, China.
Ting WeiState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Jianyi YangMOE Frontiers Science Center for Nonlinear Expectations, Research Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
Hai-Feng ChenState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7496-4182

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities YG2023LC03National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFF1205102National Key Research and Development Program of China 2025YFA0921000National Natural Science Foundation of China 32171242National Natural Science Foundation of China 32571435National Natural Science Foundation of China T2222012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play pivotal roles in various biological functions whose dynamic structures are closely associated with many human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer disease. Structural investigations of IDPs typically involve a combination of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and experimental data to mitigate intrinsic biases in simulation methods. However, the high computational cost of these simulations and the limited availability of experimental data significantly restrict their applicability. Despite the recent advancements in structure prediction for structured proteins, understanding the conformational properties of IDPs remains challenging, partly due to the poor conservation of disordered protein sequences and the scarcity of experimental characterization. Here, IDPFold is introduced as a method capable of generating conformational ensembles for IDPs directly from their sequences using fine-tuned diffusion models. IDPFold eliminates the reliance on multiple sequence alignments (MSA) or experimental data, offering a more detailed characterization of structural features in IDP ensembles. Evaluated across 27 IDP systems, IDPFold achieves Rg error of -0.06 and an RMSD of 0.65 ppm on Cα secondary chemical shifts with experimental values, significantly better than all existing generative deep learning approaches. IDPFold can be used to elucidate the sequence-disorder-function paradigm of IDPs.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationIntrinsically Disordered Proteinsaccurate generationdynamical conformation ensemblefine‐tuningIDPFoldintrinsically disordered proteins

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