I-TASSER-MTD: a deep-learning-based platform for multi-domain protein structure and function prediction

X Zhou, W Zheng, Y Li, R Pearce, C Zhang, EW Bell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most proteins in cells are composed of multiple folding units (or domains) to perform
complex functions in a cooperative manner. Relative to the rapid progress in single-domain …

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 …

Folding non-homologous proteins by coupling deep-learning contact maps with I-TASSER assembly simulations

W Zheng, C Zhang, Y Li, R Pearce, EW Bell… - Cell reports methods, 2021 - cell.com
Structure prediction for proteins lacking homologous templates in the Protein Data Bank
(PDB) remains a significant unsolved problem. We developed a protocol, CI-TASSER, to …

Deep‐learning contact‐map guided protein structure prediction in CASP13

W Zheng, Y Li, C Zhang, R Pearce… - Proteins: Structure …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report the results of two fully automated structure prediction pipelines,“Zhang‐Server”
and “QUARK”, in CASP13. The pipelines were built upon the C‐I‐TASSER and C‐QUARK …

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 …

SubMito-XGBoost: predicting protein submitochondrial localization by fusing multiple feature information and eXtreme gradient boosting

B Yu, W Qiu, C Chen, A Ma, J Jiang, H Zhou… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Mitochondria are an essential organelle in most eukaryotes. They not only play
an important role in energy metabolism but also take part in many critical cytopathological …

Improving fragment-based ab initio protein structure assembly using low-accuracy contact-map predictions

SM Mortuza, W Zheng, C Zhang, Y Li, R Pearce… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sequence-based contact prediction has shown considerable promise in assisting non-
homologous structure modeling, but it often requires many homologous sequences and a …

Accurate prediction of protein contact maps by coupling residual two-dimensional bidirectional long short-term memory with convolutional neural networks

J Hanson, K Paliwal, T Litfin, Y Yang, Y Zhou - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Accurate prediction of a protein contact map depends greatly on capturing as
much contextual information as possible from surrounding residues for a target residue pair …

ResPRE: high-accuracy protein contact prediction by coupling precision matrix with deep residual neural networks

Y Li, J Hu, C Zhang, DJ Yu, Y Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Contact-map of a protein sequence dictates the global topology of structural fold.
Accurate prediction of the contact-map is thus essential to protein 3D structure prediction …

Deducing high-accuracy protein contact-maps from a triplet of coevolutionary matrices through deep residual convolutional networks

Y Li, C Zhang, EW Bell, W Zheng, X Zhou… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The topology of protein folds can be specified by the inter-residue contact-maps and
accurate contact-map prediction can help ab initio structure folding. We developed …