Macromolecular crowding is more than hard-core repulsions

SL Speer, CJ Stewart, L Sapir… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cells are crowded, but proteins are almost always studied in dilute aqueous buffer. We
review the experimental evidence that crowding affects the equilibrium thermodynamics of …

Haven't got a glue: protein surface variation for the design of molecular glue degraders

Z Kozicka, NH Thomä - Cell Chemical Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Molecular glue degraders are small, drug-like compounds that induce interactions between
an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a target, which result in ubiquitination and subsequent …

Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer

R Evans, M O'Neill, A Pritzel, N Antropova, A Senior… - biorxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
While the vast majority of well-structured single protein chains can now be predicted to high
accuracy due to the recent AlphaFold model, the prediction of multi-chain protein complexes …

Computed structures of core eukaryotic protein complexes

IR Humphreys, J Pei, M Baek, A Krishnakumar… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Protein-protein interactions play critical roles in biology, but the structures
of many eukaryotic protein complexes are unknown, and there are likely many interactions …

Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network

M Baek, F DiMaio, I Anishchenko, J Dauparas… - Science, 2021 - science.org
DeepMind presented notably accurate predictions at the recent 14th Critical Assessment of
Structure Prediction (CASP14) conference. We explored network architectures that …

Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using AlphaFold2

P Bryant, G Pozzati, A Elofsson - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Predicting the structure of interacting protein chains is a fundamental step towards
understanding protein function. Unfortunately, no computational method can produce …

Rethinking attention with performers

K Choromanski, V Likhosherstov, D Dohan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We introduce Performers, Transformer architectures which can estimate regular (softmax)
full-rank-attention Transformers with provable accuracy, but using only linear (as opposed to …

Towards a structurally resolved human protein interaction network

DF Burke, P Bryant, I Barrio-Hernandez… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Cellular functions are governed by molecular machines that assemble through protein-
protein interactions. Their atomic details are critical to studying their molecular mechanisms …

Deciphering interaction fingerprints from protein molecular surfaces using geometric deep learning

P Gainza, F Sverrisson, F Monti, E Rodola, D Boscaini… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting interactions between proteins and other biomolecules solely based on structure
remains a challenge in biology. A high-level representation of protein structure, the …

Cryo-EM structure of a type IV secretion system

K Macé, AK Vadakkepat, A Redzej, N Lukoyanova… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Bacterial conjugation is the fundamental process of unidirectional transfer of DNAs, often
plasmid DNAs, from a donor cell to a recipient cell. It is the primary means by which …