Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

J Cheng, G Novati, J Pan, C Bycroft, A Žemgulytė… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The vast majority of missense variants observed in the human genome are of unknown
clinical significance. We present AlphaMissense, an adaptation of AlphaFold fine-tuned on …

Proteingym: Large-scale benchmarks for protein fitness prediction and design

P Notin, A Kollasch, D Ritter… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Predicting the effects of mutations in proteins is critical to many applications, from
understanding genetic disease to designing novel proteins to address our most pressing …

Deep mutational scanning: A versatile tool in systematically mapping genotypes to phenotypes

H Wei, X Li - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Unveiling how genetic variations lead to phenotypic variations is one of the key questions in
evolutionary biology, genetics, and biomedical research. Deep mutational scanning (DMS) …

Functional and structural insights into RAS effector proteins

AM Mozzarelli, DK Simanshu, P Castel - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
RAS proteins are conserved guanosine triphosphate (GTP) hydrolases (GTPases) that act
as molecular binary switches and play vital roles in numerous cellular processes. Upon GTP …

Decrypting Allostery in Membrane-Bound K-Ras4B Using Complementary In Silico Approaches Based on Unbiased Molecular Dynamics Simulations

M Castelli, F Marchetti, S Osuna… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein functions are dynamically regulated by allostery, which enables conformational
communication even between faraway residues, and expresses itself in many forms, akin to …

MoCHI: neural networks to fit interpretable models and quantify energies, energetic couplings, epistasis, and allostery from deep mutational scanning data

AJ Faure, B Lehner - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
We present MoCHI, a tool to fit interpretable models using deep mutational scanning data.
MoCHI infers free energy changes, as well as interaction terms (energetic couplings) for …

The genetic architecture of protein stability

AJ Faure, A Martí-Aranda, C Hidalgo-Carcedo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
There are more ways to synthesize a 100-amino acid (aa) protein (20100) than there are
atoms in the universe. Only a very small fraction of such a vast sequence space can ever be …

Local energetic frustration conservation in protein families and superfamilies

MI Freiberger, V Ruiz-Serra, C Pontes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Energetic local frustration offers a biophysical perspective to interpret the effects of
sequence variability on protein families. Here we present a methodology to analyze local …

Extrapolating lessons from targeted protein degradation to other proximity-inducing drugs

GE Winter - ACS Chemical Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging pharmacologic strategy. It relies on
small-molecule “degraders” that induce proximity of a component of an E3 ubiquitin ligase …

The genetic architecture of protein interaction affinity and specificity

AM Bendel, AJ Faure, D Klein, K Shimada… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The encoding and evolution of specificity and affinity in protein-protein interactions is poorly
understood. Here, we address this question by quantifying how all mutations in one protein …