Simplified protein models enable simulations of unknown folding patterns

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

AI-guided analysis assigns amino acid-level roles in protein design

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and ...
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Let There Be Sound: Turning Amino Acids into Tunes to Better Study Protein Structure

Proteins, we hear you loud and clear. A group of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) devised an artificial-intelligence (AI)-based approach to translate each of the 20 amino ...
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Salesforce’s ProGen trained on 280 million amino acid sequences to learn to generate proteins

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing ...
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Prediction of protein disorder from amino acid sequence

Structural disorder is vital for proteins' function in diverse biological processes. It is therefore highly desirable to be able to predict the degree of order and disorder from amino acid sequence.

AI model predicts peptide sequences that prevent ribosome stalling in E. coli protein production

Proteins sourced from microorganisms are attracting attention for their potential in biomanufacturing a variety of products, ...
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AI method pinpoints amino acids that control protein function and stability

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and ...
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Lost in translation: How 'risky' amino acids abort elongation in protein synthesis

Elongation, a crucial step in the translation process of protein synthesis, gets disrupted by amino acid sequences with an abundance of N-terminal aspartic and glutamic acid residues in eukaryotic ...