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We design toy protein mimicking a machine-like function of an enzyme. Using an insight gained by the study of conformation space of compact lattice polymers, we demonstrate the possibility of a large scale conformational rearrangement which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander L. Borovinskiy , Alexander Yu. Grosberg

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3D structure, known as protein inverse folding, is a fundamental challenge in protein engineering. While recent deep learning methods have achieved impressive performance by recovering…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Mengdi Liu , Xiaoxue Cheng , Zhangyang Gao , Hong Chang , Cheng Tan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

We propose a general method for predicting potentially good folders from a given number of amino acid sequences. Our approach is based on the calculation of the rate of convergence of each amino acid chain towards the native structure using…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Dmitry K. Gridnev , Pedro Ojeda-May , Martin E. Garcia

A general strategy is described for finding which amino acid sequences have native states in a desired conformation (inverse design). The approach is used to design sequences of 48 hydrophobic and polar aminoacids on three-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Micheletti , F. Seno , A. Maritan , J. R. Banavar

Protein folding is the intricate process by which a linear sequence of amino acids self-assembles into a unique three-dimensional structure. Protein folding kinetics is the study of pathways and time-dependent mechanisms a protein undergoes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Vijay Arvind. R , Haribharathi Sivakumar , Brindha. R

On the study of protein folding, our understanding about the protein structures is limited. In this paper we find one way to characterize the compact structures of lattice protein model. A quantity called Partnum is given to each compact…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bin Wang , Zu-guo Yu

Quantum annealing is a promising approach for obtaining good approximate solutions to difficult optimization problems. Folding a protein sequence into its minimum-energy structure represents such a problem. For testing new algorithms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Anders Irbäck , Lucas Knuthson , Sandipan Mohanty , Carsten Peterson

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana

Protein design is a fundamental challenge in biotechnology, aiming to design novel sequences with specific functions within the vast space of possible proteins. Recent advances in deep generative models have enabled function-based protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Nuowei Liu , Jiahao Kuang , Yanting Liu , Tao Ji , Changzhi Sun , Man Lan , Yuanbin Wu

Repeat proteins are made with tandem copies of similar amino acid stretches that fold into elongated architectures. Due to their symmetry, these proteins constitute excellent model systems to investigate how evolution relates to structure,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Jacopo Marchi , Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Diego U. Ferreiro

We present a dual optimization concept of predicting optimal sequences as well as optimal folds of off-lattice protein models in the context of multi-scale modeling. We validate the utility of the recently introduced hidden-force Monte…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-20 István Kolossváry

A phenomenological model hamiltonian to describe the folding of a protein with any given sequence is proposed. The protein is thought of as a collection of pieces of helices; as a consequence its configuration space increases with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Pierpaolo Bruscolini

How can we design proteins with desired functions? We are motivated by a chemical intuition that both geometric structure and biochemical properties are critical to a protein's function. In this paper, we propose SurfPro, a new method to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-19 Zhenqiao Song , Tinglin Huang , Lei Li , Wengong Jin

A new general algorithm for optimization of potential functions for protein folding is introduced. It is based upon gradient optimization of the thermodynamic stability of native folds of a training set of proteins with known structure. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ole Winther , Anders Krogh

Accurate protein structure prediction from amino-acid sequences is critical to better understanding the protein function. Recent advances in this area largely benefit from more precise inter-residue distance and orientation predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiaxiang Wu , Shitong Luo , Tao Shen , Haidong Lan , Sheng Wang , Junzhou Huang

Designing novel protein sequences for a desired 3D topological fold is a fundamental yet non-trivial task in protein engineering. Challenges exist due to the complex sequence--fold relationship, as well as the difficulties to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yue Cao , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Pin-Yu Chen , Igor Melnyk , Yang Shen

Recent advances in geometric deep learning and generative modeling have enabled the design of novel proteins with a wide range of desired properties. However, current state-of-the-art approaches are typically restricted to generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-26 Vsevolod Viliuga , Leif Seute , Nicolas Wolf , Simon Wagner , Arne Elofsson , Jan Stühmer , Frauke Gräter

A new method for sequence optimization in protein models is presented. The approach, which has inherited its basic philosophy from recent work by Deutsch and Kurosky [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 323 (1996)] by maximizing conditional probabilities…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Anders Irbäck , Carsten Peterson , Frank Potthast , Erik Sandelin

The recent breakthrough of AlphaFold3 in modeling complex biomolecular interactions, including those between proteins and ligands, nucleotides, or metal ions, creates new opportunities for protein design. In so-called inverse protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Kai Yi , Kiarash Jamali , Sjors H. W. Scheres