Assessing structure-function impacts on Vitellogenin by leveraging allelic variant occurring in honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera meliffera
Vilde Leipart, Oriol Gracia Carmona, Christine Anne Orengo…·Gro Vang Amdam
The paper identifies a 9-nucleotide deletion in honey bee Vg alleles and shows it maintains protein structure and stability using structural bioinformatics and a transformer-based model.