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Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2
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Abstract
Equilibrium fluctuations and triggered conformational changes often underlie the functional cycles of membrane proteins. For example, transporters mediate the passage of molecules across cell membranes by alternating between inward- and outward-facing states, while receptors undergo intracellular structural rearrangements that initiate signaling cascades. Although the conformational plasticity of these proteins has historically posed a challenge for traditional de novo protein structure prediction pipelines, the recent success of AlphaFold2 (AF2) in CASP14 culminated in the modeling of a transporter in multiple conformations to high accuracy. Given that AF2 was designed to predict static structures of proteins, it remains unclear if this result represents an underexplored capability to accurately predict multiple conformations and/or structural heterogeneity. Here, we present an approach to drive AF2 to sample alternative conformations of topologically diverse transporters and G-protein-coupled receptors that are absent from the AF2 training set. Whereas models of most proteins generated using the default AF2 pipeline are conformationally homogeneous and nearly identical to one another, reducing the depth of the input multiple sequence alignments by stochastic subsampling led to the generation of accurate models in multiple conformations. In our benchmark, these conformations spanned the range between two experimental structures of interest, with models at the extremes of these conformational distributions observed to be among the most accurate (average template modeling score of 0.94). These results suggest a straightforward approach to identifying native-like alternative states, while also highlighting the need for the next generation of deep learning algorithms to be designed to predict ensembles of biophysically relevant states.
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Reducing the depth of input MSAs by stochastic subsampling drives AlphaFold2 to sample alternative, native-like conformations of transporters and GPCRs whose structures were absent from its training set. The approach recovers experimentally observed inward/outward or inactive/active states, but it is a methodological “hack” with limited success for proteins already represented in the AF2 training set.
Key findings
- For all eight benchmark targets—five transporters (LAT1, ZnT8, MCT1, STP10, ASCT2) and three GPCRs (CGRPR, PTH1R, FZD7)—accurate models of at least one conformation were obtained (TM score ≥0.9), and both conformations could be predicted with shallow MSAs.
- Models at the extremes of the first principal component (PC1) were among the most accurate: average TM score was 0.94 for the top 1, top 3, and top 10 PC1 models; PC1 captured 64.9% ± 16.1% of structural variation among models generated with MSAs of 32 or more sequences.
- Predicted structural fluctuations correlated with experimental conformational changes for ASCT2, LAT1, CGRPR, and MCT1 with templates (R² ≥ 0.75); Pearson correlation between PC1 and TM score exceeded 0.8 for all transporters.
- MCT1 was an exception: over 99% of template-free models had TM ≥0.9 to the inward-facing structure and <0.9 to the outward-facing structure regardless of MSA depth; accurate outward-facing models required templates and MSAs of 16–32 sequences.
- For four proteins with at least one conformation in the AF2 training set (CCR5, SERT, PfMATE, MurJ), conformational diversity was far more limited, and none adopted the alternative conformer.
Methods
- AF2 v2.0.1 with modified ColabFold was used; MSAs were generated with MMseqs2, template search was disabled except for explicit template-based tests, recycles were set to one, and final MD refinement was skipped.
- For template-free predictions, all five neural networks were used, with 10 predictions per network per MSA size, yielding 50 models per protein per MSA depth; MSA depth was controlled via `max_msa_clusters` and `max_extra_msa`.
- Benchmark set: eight membrane proteins absent from the PDB before April 30, 2018 and determined in two or more conformations, plus four proteins with at least one conformation in the AF2 training set; structural similarity was assessed by TM-align, and PCA/RMSF were calculated in CPPTRAJ with loop residues omitted from PCA.
Limitations
- Stated: the approach is a methodological “hack,” not an explicit AF2 objective; AF2 likely does not learn energy landscapes, does not account for the lipid environment, and showed limited success for proteins whose structures were in the training set.
- Stated: optimal MSA depth and template choice varied by protein, with no one-size-fits-all solution; the GPR114/ADGRG5 predictions require experimental validation.
- Evident from the text: the benchmark is small (eight targets plus four training-set proteins), validation depends on already-known experimental structures, and the authors skipped the final MD simulation to reduce computational cost.
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“the first principal component (PC1) captured 64.9% ± 16.1% of the structural variations among the models generated using MSAs with 32 or more sequences”
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“In every case, a correlation was evident between each model’s PC1 values and their TM scores.”
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“No general pattern was readily apparent regarding the ideal MSA depth required to achieve this balance, even when accounting for sequence length of the target”
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“Correlation between these two measures was observed in most cases and was notable for ASCT2, LAT1, CGRPR, and MCT1 with templates (R2 ≥ 0.75).”
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“MSAs with hundreds or thousands of sequences were generally observed to engender tighter clustering in conformations specific to each protein.”
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“The conformational diversity of these models, including those generated using shallow MSAs, was far more limited than what was generally observed for the proteins discussed above, with the exception of MCT1”
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“Moreover, the experimental structures virtually always flanked the AF2 models along PC1.”
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“comparison of PC1/PC2 values suggested that the predicted dynamics deviate from simple interpolation of two end states”
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“Indeed, the models with the most extreme PC1 values were also among the most accurate: average TM scores were 0.94 for the top 1, top 3, and top 10 PC1 models”
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“Similar results were observed when we modeled PTH1R using either inactive or active templates, as well as LAT1 using either OF or IF templates”
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“Increasing the depth of subsampled MSAs had the desirable effect of eliminating these models, while also limiting the extent to which alternative conformations were sampled.”
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“One target, MCT1, was exclusively modeled by AF2 in either inward-facing (IF) or fully occluded conformations; over 99% of the models had TM scores of ≥0.9 and <0.9 to the IF and outward-facing (OF) structures, respectively, regardless of MSA depth.”
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“misfolded models virtually never coclustered and could thus be identified and excluded from further analysis”
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“The inclusion of templates restored this correlation in MCT1 but contributed negligibly to those of PTH1R and LAT1”
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“Accurate OF models were obtained only with MSAs containing 16–32 sequences and constituted a minor population in an ensemble dominated by IF models.”
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“because the optimal MSA depth and choice of templates varied for each protein”
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“Upon examining the list of CASP14 targets and corresponding models, we found that AF2 modeled the multidrug transporter LmrP (target T1024) in multiple conformations, two of which were individually consistent with published experimental data”
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“reducing the depth of the input multiple sequence alignments by stochastic subsampling led to the generation of accurate models in multiple conformations.”
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“Although conformational diversity was demonstrated to a limited extent by the generation of occluded models of MurJ and PfMATE, none of the models observed adopted the alternative conformer.”
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“Accurate representatives of distinct conformers were generally obtainable with exhaustive sampling and could be identified by performing PCA and selecting models at the extreme positions of PC1.”
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“hinting at the possibility that traditional methods may still be required to capture alternative conformers”
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“The resulting models are unnaturally compact and frequently distorted, preventing critical questions about ligand and/or drug binding modes from being addressed (Ovchinnikov et al., 2015; Nicoludis and Gaudet, 2018).”
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“The physiological relevance of these proposed structural movements nonetheless requires experimental validation.”
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“For G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), ligand binding on the extracellular side triggers structural rearrangements on the intracellular side that initiate downstream signaling (Wang et al., 2020; Gusach et al., 2020).”
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“the vectorial translocation of substrates by transporters is mediated by movements that open and close extra- and intracellular gates (Drew and Boudker, 2016; Kazmier et al., 2017).”
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“All templates were manually inspected, and those with structures similar to the desired conformation of interest were retained.”
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“A performance breakthrough was unveiled during CASP14 by AlphaFold2 (AF2) (Jumper et al., 2021a; Tunyasuvunakool et al., 2021; Pereira et al., 2021), which achieved remarkably accurate de novo structure prediction.”
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“MSA subsampling was carried out randomly by AF2”
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“No manual intervention was carried out to fine-tune the composition of these alignments.”
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“The structural model deposited in the AF2 database, which likely depicts an active conformation that diverges from the structure of the homolog GPR97 (Ping et al., 2021), could be recapitulated by using deep MSAs.”
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“Given that AF2 was designed to predict static structures of proteins, it remains unclear if this result represents an underexplored capability to accurately predict multiple conformations and/or structural heterogeneity.”
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The experimental structures used as references are accurate representations of the native conformations.
“we used the active conformation of FZD7 and the inactive conformation of the nearly identical FZD4”
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The two experimental structures of each target bracket the relevant conformational ensemble.
“In our benchmark, these conformations spanned the range between two experimental structures of interest”
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AF2 does not directly account for the lipid environment.
“AF2 does not directly account for the lipid environment”
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The structure of GPR114/ADGRG5 has not been experimentally determined.
“GPR114/ADGRG5, a class B2 adhesion GPCR whose structure has not been experimentally determined.”
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“del Alamo et al modified the AF2 pipeline by reducing the number of recycles and restricting the depth of randomly subsampled MSAs to sample functionally relevant alternative conformations of transporters and G-protein-coupled receptors46”
From The power and pitfalls of AlphaFold2 for structure prediction beyond rigid globular proteins (2024) · cites this paper as [46]
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“Initial efforts to enhance sampling of different conformations have involved altering the number of sequences used to generate shallower MSA representations, masking coevolutionary information provided by MSAs, and splitting conflicting coevolutionary signals by clustering MSAs46,47,105.”
From The power and pitfalls of AlphaFold2 for structure prediction beyond rigid globular proteins (2024) · cites this paper as [46]
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“Despite these demonstrations of shortcomings, it was shown that subsampling the input MSA enables AF2 to predict known conformational changes of transporters14.”
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FZD7 does not meet the stated two-conformation selection criterion
MinorThe paper says the benchmark is restricted to proteins experimentally determined in two or more conformations. For FZD7, it instead uses an active FZD7 structure and an inactive structure of the related protein FZD4.
“Therefore, by necessity, this study is restricted to proteins whose structures were absent from the PDB before this date and have since been determined at atomic resolution in two or more conformations.”
“to serve as points of comparison, we used the active conformation of FZD7 and the inactive conformation of the nearly identical FZD4, Yang et al., 2018”
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Jumper, J., Evans, R., Pritzel, A., Green, T., Figurnov, M., Ronneberger, O., Tunyasuvunakool, K., Bates, R., Žídek, A., Potapenko, A., et al. (2021) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 · Cited by 43,764
Needleman, S. B., & Wunsch, C. D. (1970) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-2836(70)90057-4 · Cited by 11,288 · cited 2×
“The following templates were used: OF MCT1 with FucB (PDB 3O7Pa and 3O7Qa, 18% sequence identity calculated using Needleman Wunsch Needleman and Wunsch, 1970 ; Madeira et al., 2019 ); OF LAT1 with AdiC (3OB6a and 5J4Ib, 22%); IF LAT1 with b(0,+)AT1 (6LI9, 45%), KCC3 (6Y5Ra, 12%), GkApcT (6F34a,…”
ColabFold - Making protein folding accessible to all
Mirdita, M., Schütze, K., Moriwaki, Y., Heo, L., Ovchinnikov, S., & Steinegger, M. (2021) · doi:10.1101/2021.08.15.456425 · Cited by 9,391 · cited 1×
“0.1 and a modified version of ColabFold ( Mirdita et al., 2021 ) that is available at https://github.com/delalamo/af2_conformations, ( Del Alamo, 2021b copy archived at swh:1:rev:d60db86886186e80622deaa91045caccaf4103d3).”
BackgroundInfluentialPTRAJ and CPPTRAJ: Software for Processing and Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Trajectory Data
Roe, D. R., & Cheatham, T. E. (2013) · Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation · doi:10.1021/ct400341p · Cited by 7,466 · cited 1×
“PCA and RMSF calculations were carried out in CPPTRAJ ( Roe and Cheatham, 2013 ).”
MethodMMseqs2 enables sensitive protein sequence searching for the analysis of massive data sets
Steinegger, M., & Söding, J. (2017) · Nature Biotechnology · doi:10.1038/nbt.3988 · Cited by 4,840 · cited 1×
“First, all MSAs were obtained using the MMSeqs2 server ( Steinegger and Söding, 2017 ), rather than the default databases.”
The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019
Madeira, F., Park, Y. M., Lee, J., Buso, N., Gur, T., Madhusoodanan, N., Basutkar, P., Tivey, A. R. N., Potter, S. C., Finn, R. D., et al. (2019) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkz268 · Cited by 4,167 · cited 1×
“…templates were used: OF MCT1 with FucB (PDB 3O7Pa and 3O7Qa, 18% sequence identity calculated using Needleman Wunsch Needleman and Wunsch, 1970 ; Madeira et al., 2019 ); OF LAT1 with AdiC (3OB6a and 5J4Ib, 22%); IF LAT1 with b(0,+)AT1 (6LI9, 45%), KCC3 (6Y5Ra, 12%), GkApcT (6F34a, 24%), NKCC1…”
MethodTM-align: a protein structure alignment algorithm based on the TM-score
Zhang, Y. (2005) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gki524 · Cited by 3,774 · cited 3×
“…the targets, each model’s similarity to the experimental structures was quantified using template modeling (TM) score ( Zhang and Skolnick, 2004 ; Zhang and Skolnick, 2005 ; Xu and Zhang, 2010 ), a metric ranging from 0 to 1, which indicates how well the two backbone (C α atoms) structures…”
MethodHighly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
Tunyasuvunakool, K., Adler, J., Wu, Z., Green, T., Zielinski, M., Žídek, A., Bridgland, A., Cowie, A., Meyer, C., Laydon, A., et al. (2021) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1 · Cited by 3,025 · cited 1×
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- del Alamo, D., Sala, D., Mchaourab, H. S., & Meiler, J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
- Leipzig University (DE)
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- Meiler, Jens
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- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Keywords
- AlphaFold2, conformational sampling, membrane transporters, G protein-coupled receptors, structural heterogeneity, protein conformational plasticity, protein structure prediction, conformational ensembles
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Furylfuramide, Protein Conformation, Sequence Alignment, Membrane Transport Proteins
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-07, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-07 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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