Protein storytelling through physics

E Brini, C Simmerling, K Dill - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Understanding biology, particularly at the level of actionable drug
discovery, is often a matter of developing accurate stories about how proteins work. This …

Critical assessment of methods of protein structure prediction (CASP)—Round XIV

A Kryshtafovych, T Schwede, M Topf… - Proteins: Structure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Critical assessment of structure prediction (CASP) is a community experiment to advance
methods of computing three‐dimensional protein structure from amino acid sequence. Core …

Hybrid computational methods combining experimental information with molecular dynamics

A Mondal, S Lenz, JL MacCallum, A Perez - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
A goal of structural biology is to understand how macromolecules carry out their biological
roles by identifying their metastable states, mechanisms of action, pathways leading to …

Assessment of prediction methods for protein structures determined by NMR in CASP14: Impact of AlphaFold2

YJ Huang, N Zhang, B Bersch, K Fidelis… - Proteins: Structure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
NMR studies can provide unique information about protein conformations in solution. In
CASP14, three reference structures provided by solution NMR methods were available …

AlphaFold models of small proteins rival the accuracy of solution NMR structures

R Tejero, YJ Huang, TA Ramelot… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in molecular modeling using deep learning have the potential to
revolutionize the field of structural biology. In particular, AlphaFold has been observed to …

Blind assessment of monomeric AlphaFold2 protein structure models with experimental NMR data

EH Li, LE Spaman, R Tejero, YJ Huang… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in molecular modeling of protein structures are changing the field of
structural biology. AlphaFold-2 (AF2), an AI system developed by DeepMind, Inc., utilizes …

PRE‐driven protein NMR structures: an alternative approach in highly paramagnetic systems

IB Trindade, M Invernici, F Cantini, RO Louro… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metalloproteins play key roles across biology, and knowledge of their structure is essential
to understand their physiological role. For those metalloproteins containing paramagnetic …

CryoFold 2.0: Cryo-EM Structure Determination with MELD

L Chang, A Mondal, JL MacCallum… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cryo-electron microscopy data are becoming more prevalent and accessible at higher
resolution levels, leading to the development of new computational tools to determine the …

NMR of Paramagnetic Proteins: 13C Derived Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancements Are an Additional Source of Structural Information in Solution

L Querci, IB Trindade, M Invernici, JM Silva, F Cantini… - Magnetochemistry, 2023 - mdpi.com
In paramagnetic metalloproteins, longitudinal relaxation rates of 13C′ and 13Cα nuclei can
be measured using 13C detected experiments and converted into electron spin-nuclear spin …

Simultaneous assignment and structure determination of proteins from sparsely labeled NMR datasets

A Mondal, A Perez - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sparsely labeled NMR samples provide opportunities to study larger biomolecular
assemblies than is traditionally done by NMR. This requires new computational tools that …