A dramatic protein fold switch powers a bactericidal nanomachine
Yao He, Annie Si Cong Li, Xiaoying Cai…·Z. Hong Zhou
The paper describes a protein fold switch in a bactericidal nanomachine that enables membrane puncture and bactericidal activity.
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Yao He, Annie Si Cong Li, Xiaoying Cai…·Z. Hong Zhou
The paper describes a protein fold switch in a bactericidal nanomachine that enables membrane puncture and bactericidal activity.
Joseph W. Schafer, Myeongsang Lee, Devlina Chakravarty…·Lauren L. Porter
The paper evaluates AF-cluster's performance on metamorphic proteins and finds random sequence sampling outperforms it, suggesting ColabFold-based methods as a better alternative.
Devlina Chakravarty, Joseph W. Schafer, Ethan A. Chen…·Lauren L. Porter
This study evaluates AlphaFold2's ability to predict fold-switching proteins and finds it has limited success in sampling multiple conformations and accurately assessing confidence metrics.
Lauren L. Porter, Devlina Chakravarty, Joseph W. Schafer, Ethan A. Chen
The paper shows that ColabFold can predict alternative protein structures without needing coevolutionary information from clustered MSAs, using only single sequences or sequence similarity.
Devlina Chakravarty, Shwetha Sreenivasan, Liskin Swint‐Kruse, Lauren L. Porter
The paper identifies an evolutionary pathway between two protein folds using statistical methods and structural models on bacterial response regulator proteins.
Devlina Chakravarty, Lauren L. Porter
The paper evaluates AlphaFold2's performance on fold-switching proteins, finding it predicts one conformation accurately but misses others, despite high confidence scores.