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Advances in protein structure prediction and design

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Kuhlman, Brian, Bradley, Philip·2019·Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

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The prediction of protein three-dimensional structure from amino acid sequence has been a grand challenge problem in computational biophysics for decades, owing to its intrinsic scientific interest and also to the many potential applications for robust protein structure prediction algorithms, from genome interpretation to protein function prediction. More recently, the inverse problem - designing an amino acid sequence that will fold into a specified three-dimensional structure - has attracted growing attention as a potential route to the rational engineering of proteins with functions useful in biotechnology and medicine. Methods for the prediction and design of protein structures have advanced dramatically in the past decade. Increases in computing power and the rapid growth in protein sequence and structure databases have fuelled the development of new data-intensive and computationally demanding approaches for structure prediction. New algorithms for designing protein folds and protein-protein interfaces have been used to engineer novel high-order assemblies and to design from scratch fluorescent proteins with novel or enhanced properties, as well as signalling proteins with therapeutic potential. In this Review, we describe current approaches for protein structure prediction and design and highlight a selection of the successful applications they have enabled.

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  • The folding paradigm stipulated that unfolded molecules spontaneously fold into the same shape, with the linear amino acid sequence specifying the folded native state.

    “The folding paradigm stipulated that unfolded molecules will always spontaneously fold into the same shape; that is, the linear amino acid sequence specifies a protein’s folded native state.”

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  • Quantum annealing is suitable to the problem of protein design, i.e. finding the amino acid sequence that minimizes the energy of a chosen main-chain configuration.

    “Quantum annealing is also suitable to the problem of protein design [43, 77, 78], i.e. finding the amino acid sequence that minimizes the energy of a chosen main-chain configuration.”

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Authors
Kuhlman, B., & Bradley, P.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author
  • Kuhlman, Brian
  • Bradley, Philip
Venue
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Published
2019-08-15
Volume
20
Issue
11
Pages
681-697
ISSN
  • 1471-0072 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0080
OpenAlex
W2968494487
Cited by
806
References
175
Citations by year
2026: 53 · 2025: 106 · 2024: 153 · 2023: 156 · 2022: 137 · 2021: 136 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 5
FWCI
7.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM117968, R01GM121487, R01GM123378, R35GM131923)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Keywords
protein structure prediction, protein design, protein folding, protein structure modeling, protein-protein interfaces, fluorescent protein engineering, signalling proteins, rational protein design, protein function prediction
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Animals, Humans, Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Sequence Analysis, Protein, Databases, Protein

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