A roadmap for metagenomic enzyme discovery

SL Robinson, J Piel, S Sunagawa - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Metagenomics has yielded massive amounts of sequencing data
offering a glimpse into the biosynthetic potential of the uncultivated microbial majority. While …

Toward the solution of the protein structure prediction problem

R Pearce, Y Zhang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Since Anfinsen demonstrated that the information encoded in a protein's amino acid
sequence determines its structure in 1973, solving the protein structure prediction problem …

Improving deep learning protein monomer and complex structure prediction using DeepMSA2 with huge metagenomics data

W Zheng, Q Wuyun, Y Li, C Zhang, PL Freddolino… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Leveraging iterative alignment search through genomic and metagenome sequence
databases, we report the DeepMSA2 pipeline for uniform protein single-and multichain …

DeepMSA: constructing deep multiple sequence alignment to improve contact prediction and fold-recognition for distant-homology proteins

C Zhang, W Zheng, SM Mortuza, Y Li, Y Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The success of genome sequencing techniques has resulted in rapid explosion
of protein sequences. Collections of multiple homologous sequences can provide critical …

Integrating deep learning, threading alignments, and a multi‐MSA strategy for high‐quality protein monomer and complex structure prediction in CASP15

W Zheng, Q Wuyun, PL Freddolino… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of the “UM‐TBM” and “Zheng” groups in CASP15 for protein monomer
and complex structure prediction. These prediction sets were obtained using the D‐I …

The origin and structural evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila

J Peng, L Zhao - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies reveal that de novo gene origination from previously non-genic sequences is
a common mechanism for gene innovation. These young genes provide an opportunity to …

[HTML][HTML] rMSA: a sequence search and alignment algorithm to improve RNA structure modeling

C Zhang, Y Zhang, AM Pyle - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is the entry point of many RNA structure modeling
tasks, such as prediction of RNA secondary structure (rSS) and contacts. However, there are …

Decoding the link of microbiome niches with homologous sequences enables accurately targeted protein structure prediction

P Yang, W Zheng, K Ning… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Information derived from metagenome sequences through deep-learning techniques has
significantly improved the accuracy of template free protein structure modeling. However …

[HTML][HTML] Petascale homology search for structure prediction

S Lee, G Kim, EL Karin, M Mirdita, S Park, R Chikhi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The recent CASP15 competition highlighted the critical role of multiple sequence alignments
(MSAs) in protein structure prediction, as demonstrated by the success of the top AlphaFold2 …

Precision enzyme discovery through targeted mining of metagenomic data

S Ariaeenejad, J Gharechahi… - Natural Products and …, 2024 - Springer
Metagenomics has opened new avenues for exploring the genetic potential of uncultured
microorganisms, which may serve as promising sources of enzymes and natural products for …