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3 claims from 1 paper

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    AlphaFold2 models indicate that protein sequence determines both structure and dynamics

    Guo, Perminov, Bekele et al. · Scientific Reports · 2022

    The authors ran AlphaFold2 predictions on varied protein systems and report that its confidence scores and error maps carry information about residue flexibility, as compared with molecular dynamics simulations.

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    1. Unchecked“We show that PAE maps from AF2 are correlated with the distance variation (DV) matrices from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which reveals that the PAE maps can predict the dynamical nature of protein residues.”
    2. UncheckedFor most protein models tested, including large proteins and complexes, AlphaFold2-derived scores track residue flexibility measured in molecular dynamics simulations.“We found that for most protein models, including large proteins and protein complexes, the AF2-scores are highly correlated with the root mean square fluctuations (RMSF) calculated from MD simulations.”
    3. Unchecked“However, for an IDP and a randomized protein, the AF2-scores do not correlate with the RMSF from MD, especially for the IDP.”

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