AlphaFold 2: Why It Works and Its Implications for Understanding the Relationships of Protein Sequence, Structure, and Function

被引:152
作者
Skolnick, Jeffrey [1 ]
Gao, Mu [1 ]
Zhou, Hongyi [1 ]
Singh, Suresh [2 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Study Syst Biol, Sch Biol Sci, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[2] Twilight Design, Kendall Pk, NJ 08824 USA
关键词
STRUCTURE PREDICTION; CORRELATED MUTATIONS; LIKELY COMPLETENESS; GLOBULAR-PROTEINS; I-TASSER; POTENTIALS; RESTRAINTS; DATABASE; PACKING;
D O I
10.1021/acs.jcim.1c01114
中图分类号
R914 [药物化学];
学科分类号
100701 ;
摘要
AlphaFold 2 (AF2) was the star of CASP14, the last biannual structure prediction experiment. Using novel deep learning, AF2 predicted the structures of many difficult protein targets at or near experimental resolution. Here, we present our perspective of why AF2 works and show that it is a very sophisticated fold recognition algorithm that exploits the completeness of the library of single domain PDB structures. It has also learned local side chain packing rearrangements that enable it to refine proteins to high resolution. The benefits and limitations of its ability to predict the structures of many more proteins at or close to atomic detail are discussed.
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页码:4827 / 4831
页数:5
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