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The biological function of a protein stems from its 3-dimensional structure, which is thermodynamically determined by the energetics of interatomic forces between its amino acid building blocks (the order of amino acids, known as the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-03 Sean Mullane , Ruoyan Chen , Sri Vaishnavi Vemulapalli , Eli J. Draizen , Ke Wang , Cameron Mura , Philip E. Bourne

In nature the three-dimensional structure of a protein is encoded in the corresponding gene. In this paper we describe a new method for encoding the three-dimensional structure of a protein into a binary sequence. The feature of the method…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naoto Morikawa

Proteins are linear chain molecules that play a central role in life and health. Protein native state folds are modular assemblies of space-filling building blocks of {\alpha}-helices, \{beta}-sheets and tight turns. Here we deduce the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jayanth R. Banavar , Achille Giacometti , Trinh X. Hoang , Amos Maritan , Tatjana Škrbić

Protein structure prediction is a challenging and unsolved problem in computer science. Proteins are the sequence of amino acids connected together by single peptide bond. The combinations of the twenty primary amino acids are the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Mahmood A. Rashid , Firas Khatib , Abdul Sattar

Determining the structure of a protein has been a decades-long open question. A protein's three-dimensional structure often poses nontrivial computation costs, when classical simulation algorithms are utilized. Advances in the transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Dun , Qiutai Pan , Shikai Jin , Ria Stevens , Mitchell D. Miller , George N. Phillips, , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The analysis of the three-dimensional structure of proteins is an important topic in molecular biochemistry. Structure plays a critical role in defining the function of proteins and is more strongly conserved than amino acid sequence over…

Applications · Statistics 2015-01-19 Abel Rodriguez , Scott C. Schmidler

Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. They usually perform functions by folding to a particular structure. Understanding the folding process could help the researchers to understand the functions of proteins and could also help to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jianzhu Ma

Novel numerical techniques, validated by an analysis of barnase and chymotrypsin inhibitor, are used to elucidate the paramount role played by the geometry of the protein backbone in steering the folding to the correct native state. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cristian Micheletti , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan , Flavio Seno

We modify and extend the recently developed statistical mechanical model for predicting the thermodynamic properties of chain molecules having noncovalent double-stranded conformations, as in RNA or ssDNA, and $\beta-$sheets in protein, by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Fei Liu , Luru Dai , Zhong-can Ou-Yang

The structure of proteins is essential for its function. The determination of protein structures is possible by experimental or predicted by computational methods, but also a combination of both approaches is possible. Here, first an…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-03 Gerhard Mayer

Spatial organisation is a hallmark of all living cells, and recreating it in model systems is a necessary step in the creation of synthetic cells. It is therefore of both fundamental and practical interest to better understand the basic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

In this study, the distributions of protein structure classes (or folding types) of experimentally determined structures from a legacy dataset and a comprehensive database (SCOP) are modeled precisely with geometric constructs such as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Boryeu Mao

The notion of energy landscapes provides conceptual tools for understanding the complexities of protein folding and function. Energy Landscape Theory indicates that it is much easier to find sequences that satisfy the "Principle of Minimal…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-13 R. Gonzalo Parra , Rocío Espada , Ignacio E. Sánchez , Manfred J. Sippl , Diego U. Ferreiro

Symmetry is closely intertwined with the function, genetics, and chemical properties of multiprotein complexes. Here, we explore the relation between structural symmetry and the ability of membrane proteins to sense and induce membrane…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Federico Elías-Wolff , Alexander Lyubartsev , Erik G. Brandt , Martin Lindén

These lectures will address two questions. Is there a simple variational principle underlying the existence of secondary motifs in the native state of proteins? Is there a general approach which can qualitatively capture the salient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jay Banavar , Amos Maritan , Cristian Micheletti , Flavio Seno

Elastic network models (ENM) and constraint-based, topological rigidity analysis are two distinct, coarse-grained approaches to study conformational flexibility of macromolecules. In the two decades since their introduction, both have…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-27 Dominik Budday , Sigrid Leyendecker , Henry van den Bedem

High-resolution structural information on membrane proteins is essential for understanding cell biology and for structure-based design of new medical drugs and drug delivery strategies. X-ray diffraction (XRD) can provide {\AA}ngstrom-level…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 L. Schmüser , M. Trefz , S. J. Roeters , W. Beckner , J. Pfaendtner , D. Otzen , S. Woutersen , M. Bonn , D. Schneider , T. Weidner

We study two mechanisms for the formation of protein patterns near membranes of living cells by mathematical modelling. Self-assembly of protein domains by electrostatic lipid-protein interactions is contrasted with self-organization due to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Karin John , Markus Baer

Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-09 Aydin Wells , Khalique Newaz , Jennifer Morones , Jianlin Cheng , Tijana Milenković

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime