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Large-scale determination of previously unsolved protein structures using evolutionary information

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Ovchinnikov, Sergey, Kinch, Lisa, Park, Hahnbeom, Liao, Yuxing, Pei, Jimin, Kim, David E, Kamisetty, Hetunandan, Grishin, Nick V +1 more·2015·eLife

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The prediction of the structures of proteins without detectable sequence similarity to any protein of known structure remains an outstanding scientific challenge. Here we report significant progress in this area. We first describe de novo blind structure predictions of unprecendented accuracy we made for two proteins in large families in the recent CASP11 blind test of protein structure prediction methods by incorporating residue-residue co-evolution information in the Rosetta structure prediction program. We then describe the use of this method to generate structure models for 58 of the 121 large protein families in prokaryotes for which three-dimensional structures are not available. These models, which are posted online for public access, provide structural information for the over 400,000 proteins belonging to the 58 families and suggest hypotheses about mechanism for the subset for which the function is known, and hypotheses about function for the remainder.

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  • Traditional computational prediction pipelines reliant on inter-residue distance restraints calculated from deep MSAs have historically struggled to accurately predict the structures of membrane proteins and their movements.

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Authors
Ovchinnikov, S., Kinch, L., Park, H., Liao, Y., Pei, J., Kim, D. E., Kamisetty, H., Grishin, N. V., & Baker, D.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
  • Meta (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Baker, David
Venue
eLife
Published
2015-09-03
Volume
4
Pages
e09248-e09248
ISSN
2050-084X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1895528264
Cited by
222
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 4
FWCI
14.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • eLife (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01GM092802, GM094575)
  • Welch Foundation (Robert A. Welch Foundation) (I-1505)
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 › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Keywords
protein structure prediction, de novo structure prediction, Rosetta, prokaryotic proteins, structural model, protein function prediction, evolutionary information
MeSH terms
Bacterial Proteins, Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, Evolution, Molecular, Computational Biology

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