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Sydney Funk

University of Washington

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Computational design of membrane fusion proteins

Masaharu Somiya, Sydney Funk, Dane Evan Zambrano, Takumi Yanase, Noriyuki Hamaoka, Alex Kang, Banumathi Sankaran, Asim K. Bera, Neil P. King

This paper designs synthetic fusogens using machine learning, showing they enable efficient cell-cell and intracellular membrane fusion with higher activity than native SNARE complexes.

bioRxiv · May 7, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry