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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Rare Diseases

   Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

   Cheng, Novati, Pan et al. · Science · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“By combining structural context and evolutionary conservation, our model achieves state-of-the-art results across a wide range of genetic and experimental benchmarks, all without explicitly training on such data.”
   2. Unchecked“The average pathogenicity score of genes is also predictive for their cell essentiality, capable of identifying short essential genes that existing statistical approaches are underpowered to detect.”
   3. Unchecked“As a resource to the community, we provide a database of predictions for all possible human single amino acid substitutions and classify 89% of missense variants as either likely benign or likely pathogenic.”

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

   The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years

   Lemke, Heineike, Viknander et al. · Nature · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“By linking sequence divergence in structurally conserved regions to a variety of metabolic properties of the enzymes, we reveal that metabolism shapes structural evolution across multiple scales, from species-wide metabolic specialization to network organiza…
   2. Unchecked“Although positively selected residues are distributed across various structural elements, enzyme evolution is constrained by reaction mechanisms, interactions with metal ions and inhibitors, metabolic flux variability and biosynthetic cost.”