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2 claims from 2 papers

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

   De novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusion

   Watson, Juergens, Bennett et al. · Nature · 2023

   Fine-tuning the RoseTTAFold network on protein structure denoising gives RFdiffusion, a generative model that designs diverse functional proteins, tested experimentally on hundreds of designs.

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   1. UncheckedA cryo-EM structure of a designed binder bound to influenza haemagglutinin is reported as nearly identical to the RFdiffusion design model.“The accuracy of RFdiffusion is confirmed by the cryogenic electron microscopy structure of a designed binder in complex with influenza haemagglutinin that is nearly identical to the design model.”

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

   Atomic context-conditioned protein sequence design using LigandMPNN

   Dauparas, Lee, Pecoraro et al. · Nature Methods · 2025

   The paper presents LigandMPNN, a deep-learning protein sequence design method that models nonprotein atoms, and reports benchmark gains plus experimentally validated small-molecule and DNA-binding designs.

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   1. UncheckedLigandMPNN recovered native sequences near small molecules, nucleotides and metals more often than Rosetta and ProteinMPNN did, on native backbones.“LigandMPNN significantly outperforms Rosetta and ProteinMPNN on native backbone sequence recovery for residues interacting with small molecules (63.3% versus 50.4% and 50.5%), nucleotides (50.5% versus 35.2% and 34.0%) and metals (77.5% versus 36.0% and 40.6%).”