Macromolecular crowding, phase separation, and homeostasis in the orchestration of bacterial cellular functions

B Monterroso, W Margolin, AJ Boersma, G Rivas… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding affects the activity of proteins and functional macromolecular
complexes in all cells, including bacteria. Crowding, together with physicochemical …

Democratizing protein language models with parameter-efficient fine-tuning

S Sledzieski, M Kshirsagar, M Baek… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Proteomics has been revolutionized by large protein language models (PLMs), which learn
unsupervised representations from large corpora of sequences. These models are typically …

Scalable protein design using optimization in a relaxed sequence space

C Frank, A Khoshouei, L Fuβ, D Schiwietz, D Putz… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Machine learning (ML)–based design approaches have advanced the field of de novo
protein design, with diffusion-based generative methods increasingly dominating protein …

Integrative modeling meets deep learning: Recent advances in modeling protein assemblies

B Shor, D Schneidman-Duhovny - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent progress in protein structure prediction based on deep learning revolutionized the
field of Structural Biology. Beyond single proteins, it also enabled high-throughput prediction …

Dynamic BTB-domain filaments promote clustering of ZBTB proteins

L Mance, N Bigot, EZ Sánchez, F Coste… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The formation of dynamic protein filaments contributes to various biological functions by
clustering individual molecules together and enhancing their binding to ligands. We report …

Frequent transitions in self-assembly across the evolution of a central metabolic enzyme

FL Sendker, T Schlotthauer, CN Mais, YK Lo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Many enzymes assemble into homomeric protein complexes comprising multiple copies of
one protein. Because structural form is usually assumed to follow function in biochemistry …

Pairing interacting protein sequences using masked language modeling

U Lupo, D Sgarbossa, AF Bitbol - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Predicting which proteins interact together from amino acid sequences is an important task.
We develop a method to pair interacting protein sequences which leverages the power of …

Mutational biases favor complexity increases in protein interaction networks after gene duplication

AF Cisneros, L Nielly-Thibault, S Mallik… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
Biological systems can gain complexity over time. While some of these transitions are likely
driven by natural selection, the extent to which they occur without providing an adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] Structural determinants of co-translational protein complex assembly

S Mallik, J Venezian, A Lobov, M Heidenreich… - Cell, 2024 - Elsevier
Protein assembly into functional complexes is critical to life's processes. While complex
assembly is classically described as occurring between fully synthesized proteins, recent …

Protein language models can capture protein quaternary state

O Avraham, T Tsaban, Z Ben-Aharon, L Tsaban… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Determining a protein's quaternary state, ie the number of monomers in a
functional unit, is a critical step in protein characterization. Many proteins form multimers for …