Prediction of Protein Secondary Structures Based on Substructural Descriptors of Molecular Fragments

Oleg S. Zakharov, Anastasia V. Rudik, Dmitry A. Filimonov, Alexey A. Lagunin · 2024

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Oleg Zakharov and co-authors predict protein shapes from the fragments they are built of, in this 2024 paper. A protein's secondary structure is its local pattern of coils and sheets. Guessing that pattern from sequence stays a core challenge in bioinformatics.

Their method describes each fragment by the neighborhoods of its atoms. A huge training set came from solved structures in the Protein Data Bank. Hundreds of thousands of labeled pieces were drawn from tens of thousands of proteins. Fragment descriptors feed the prediction model instead of raw letters alone. Chemical context may capture what sequence letters miss. Better shape guesses speed drug and enzyme design work.

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CREATOROleg S. Zakharov, Anastasia V. Rudik, Dmitry A. Filimonov, Alexey A. Lagunin
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11641695

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