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Zi Yang

Yale UniversityORCID 0009-0000-2192-8981Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintOct 21, 2026

Dynamics and activation of the Legionella Type IV secretion system

Samira Heydari, Jian Yue, Zi Yang…·Jun Liu

This study uses cryo-EM to reveal the structural dynamics and activation mechanism of the Legionella Dot/Icm T4SS, showing how it transitions from a resting state to an active secretion machine.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.19.760228

electronic health recordsexperimental assay

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BiophysicsbioRxivPreprintDec 30, 2025

Template-based RNA structure prediction advanced through a blind code competition

Youhan Lee, Shujun He, Toshiyuki Oda…·Rhiju Das

The paper describes a Kaggle competition for RNA 3D structure prediction, showing that template-based methods can outperform deep learning approaches.

3 citations

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