The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) contains more than 214 million predicted protein structures composed of domains, which are independently folding units found in multiple structural and functional contexts. Identifying domains can enabl...
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations produce a substantial volume of high-dimensional data, and traditional methods for analyzing these data pose significant computational demands. Advances in MD simulation analysis combined with deep learning-based a...
Lectins are sugar interacting proteins which bind specific glycans reversibly and have ubiquitous presence in all forms of life. They have diverse biological functions such as cell signaling, molecular recognition, etc. C-type lectins (CTL) are a gro...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 8, 2024
Predicting drug-target interactions (DTIs) is one of the crucial tasks in drug discovery, but traditional wet-lab experiments are costly and time-consuming. Recently, deep learning has emerged as a promising tool for accelerating DTI prediction due t...
International journal of molecular sciences
Apr 25, 2024
Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 variants capable of breakthrough infections have attracted global attention. These variants have significant mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike p...
Small proteins (SPs) are a unique group of proteins that play crucial roles in many important biological processes. Exploring the biological function of SPs is necessary. In this study, the InterPro tool and the maximum correlation method were utiliz...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jan 11, 2024
The protein S-nitrosylation (SNO) is a significant post-translational modification that affects the stability, activity, cellular localization, and function of proteins. Therefore, highly accurate prediction of SNO sites aids in grasping biological f...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Oct 9, 2023
Protein binding site prediction is an important prerequisite task of drug discovery and design. While binding sites are very small, irregular and varied in shape, making the prediction very challenging. Standard 3D U-Net has been adopted to predict b...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 3, 2023
With the development of deep learning, almost all single-domain proteins can be predicted at experimental resolution. However, the structure prediction of multi-domain proteins remains a challenge. Achieving end-to-end protein domain assembly and fur...
In this issue of PLOS Biology, Ibrahim and colleagues demonstrate how AlphaFold-multimer, an artificial intelligence-based structure prediction tool, can be used to identify sequence motifs binding to the ATG8 family of proteins central to autophagy.
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