[HTML][HTML] Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time

CL McCafferty, S Klumpe, RE Amaro, W Kukulski… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Biology spans a continuum of length and time scales. Individual experimental methods only
glimpse discrete pieces of this spectrum but can be combined to construct a more holistic …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-guided metagenome mining to tap microbial functional diversity

SL Robinson - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Scientists now have access to millions of accurate three-dimensional (3D) models of protein
structures. How do we leverage 3D structural models to learn about microbial functions …

Birth of protein folds and functions in the virome

J Nomburg, EE Doherty, N Price, D Bellieny-Rabelo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid evolution of viruses generates proteins that are essential for infectivity and
replication but with unknown functions, due to extreme sequence divergence. Here, using a …

Exploring structural diversity across the protein universe with The Encyclopedia of Domains

AM Lau, N Bordin, SM Kandathil, I Sillitoe, VP Waman… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) contains more than 214 million predicted
protein structures composed of domains, which are independently folding units found in …

AlphaFold two years on: Validation and impact

O Kovalevskiy, J Mateos-Garcia… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Two years on from the initial release of AlphaFold, we have seen its widespread adoption as
a structure prediction tool. Here, we discuss some of the latest work based on AlphaFold …

GTalign: spatial index-driven protein structure alignment, superposition, and search

M Margelevičius - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
With protein databases growing rapidly due to advances in structural and computational
biology, the ability to accurately align and rapidly search protein structures has become …

Structural phylogenetics unravels the evolutionary diversification of communication systems in gram-positive bacteria and their viruses

D Moi, C Bernard, M Steinegger, Y Nevers, M Langleib… - BioRXiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Recent advances in AI-based protein structure modeling have yielded remarkable progress
in predicting protein structures. Since structures are constrained by their biological function …

The landscape and perspectives of the human gut metaproteomics

Z Sun, Z Ning, D Figeys - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2024 - ASBMB
The human gut microbiome is closely associated with human health and diseases.
Metaproteomics has emerged as a valuable tool for studying the functionality of the gut …

Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins

AT Hammack, CE Blaby-Haas - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
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Clustering protein functional families at large scale with hierarchical approaches

N Bordin, H Scholes, C Rauer… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins, fundamental to cellular activities, reveal their function and evolution through their
structure and sequence. CATH functional families (FunFams) are coherent clusters of …