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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Nuclear Structure and Function

   AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

   Mosalaganti, Obarska-Kosińska, Siggel et al. · Science · 2022

   Using AI-predicted protein structures and cryo-electron tomography, the authors built a 70-MDa atomic model covering over 90% of the human nuclear pore scaffold and used it in molecular dynamics simulations.

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   1. Unchecked“Benchmarking against previous and unpublished x-ray and cryo–electron microscopy structures revealed unprecedented accuracy.”The quote differs from the paper's abstract; the stewards have been told.
   2. UncheckedSimulations suggest the nuclear pore scaffold stops the membrane pore it sits in from narrowing to small diameters when membrane tension is absent.“These simulations reveal that the NPC scaffold prevents the constriction of the otherwise stable double-membrane fusion pore to small diameters in the absence of membrane tension.”

2. 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.”