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

   AlphaDesign: a de novo protein design framework based on AlphaFold

   Jendrusch, Yang, Cacace et al. · Molecular Systems Biology · 2025

   The paper introduces AlphaDesign, a framework combining AlphaFold with diffusion models to design new proteins, and applies it to design inhibitors of bacterial retron defence systems.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say they used their AlphaDesign framework to design proteins that inhibit bacterial retron phage defence systems and tested them in living bacteria.“We apply our framework to design and systematically validate in vivo active inhibitors of a family of bacterial phage defense systems with toxic effectors called retrons, paving the way towards efficient, rational design of novel proteins as biologics.”