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#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Collagen-mediated biofilm formation and fibrillar organization in Staphylococcus epidermidis

The symbiotic skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis moisturizes human skin, contributes to protection against external pathogens, and supports innate immune stimulation. However, the interaction between collagen, a major skin protein, and S. epidermidis remains insufficiently explored. In this study, biofilm develo...

Chisato Takahashi · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Substrate specificity in lipoylation pathways: How lipoate:protein ligases discriminate between protein substrates

Lipoate is an essential protein-bound cofactor attached to conserved lysine residues in structurally related acceptor proteins, including GcvH of the glycine cleavage system and LbpA proteins required for sulfur oxidation by the sulfur-oxidizing heterodisulfide-like (sHdr) complex. The coexistence of distinct lipoylati...

Carolin Kümpel, Emma Holz, Tomohisa Sebastian Tanabe et al. · 0 citations
#protein folding Oct 2026

Differential Scanning Calorimetry Quantification of Folded Whey Proteins in Infant Formula

Human milk (HM) is recommended for infants, as it provides essential nutrients and folded whey proteins, including lactoferrin (LF), that perform antimicrobial functions and aid in gut development. However, many rely on infant formulas (IFs), where there are no clear data on how much folded whey protein is present. W...

J. C. Devenport, Jackson Tower, Charity C. Jennings et al. · 0 citations
#protein folding Dataset Open access Oct 2026

LIVIA Atlas: AlphaFold-Multimer protein interaction screens resolved to residues

Data behind LIVIA Atlas: AlphaFold-Multimer protein interaction screens scored with iLIS (AFM-LIS), keeping the interface and contact residues of every prediction. livia-atlas-human-proteome.zip: human proteome-wide screen. Schmid et al. (2025), doi:10.1101/2025.11.10.687652. livia-atlas-human-kinase-tf.zip: human kina...

Ahram Kim, Norbert Perrimon · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Evolutionary divergence of uric acid catabolic enzymes: structure–function constraints and genomic innovations across taxa

Uric acid degradation is a model for understanding how gene duplication, loss, and functional divergence drive metabolic evolution. In hominoids and uricotelic animals, uric acid is the terminal purine catabolite, whereas most other taxa further degrade it to allantoin and beyond. Comparative genomics and structura...

J. T. Rodrigues, A. C. S. Batista, J. P. M. S. Lima et al. · 0 citations
#protein folding Oct 2026

Building Life Block by Block

This thesis uses X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM to show how structure dictates specificity in two unrelated systems: the lipid signalling enzyme Autotaxin and the transcriptional coregulator Zincore, from a single enzyme pocket to a multisubunit complex controlling gene expression. Part A: Autotaxin and lipid signal...

Razvan Borza Porumb · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Characterization of cross-family conserved fragments

In a companion study, we introduced ProDive and used it to identify 318,289 high-confidence cross-family segment correspondences across all 25,545 Pfam families. Here we characterize the pervasiveness and biophysical context of the resulting mapped fragment resource. Graph-based community analysis shows that segment re...

Xiang Chen, Pu Tian · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

DMT1 Facilitates Heme-iron Absorption in Rats and Mice.

Mechanisms of heme-iron (HI) absorption remain uncertain. Heme is probably absorbed by receptor-mediated endocytosis; iron is then enzymatically liberated from heme within endosomes, or in the cytosol. If heme is catabolized in endosomes, a transporter, such as DMT1, would be required to export ionic iron into the cyto...

Yue He, Jacob S. Shine, S. Sriram et al. · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Collagen-mediated biofilm formation and fibrillar organization in Staphylococcus epidermidis

The symbiotic skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis moisturizes human skin, contributes to protection against external pathogens, and supports innate immune stimulation. However, the interaction between collagen, a major skin protein, and S. epidermidis remains insufficiently explored. In this study, biofilm develo...

Chisato Takahashi · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Oct 2026

A structure-aware generative AI framework for revealing functional relationships in protein families.

Proteins can be studied through their sequence statistics or structural properties. These represent complementary views that are useful but lack a quantitative framework to tell, family by family, which is most informative and how to combine them. We introduce a framework that builds both views in parallel: amino acid...

Divyanshu Shukla, Jonathan Martin, F. Morcos et al. · 0 citations
#protein folding Open access Oct 2026

Single-molecule chromatin tracing reveals a diversity of megabase heterochromatin domains.

Chromosomes fold into distinct domains that regulate transcription, replication and repair. In addition to well-characterized topologically associating domains (TADs) and compartments, the diversity of heterochromatin domains remains poorly defined at the sequence level. Here, using single-molecule tracing of nascent h...

Dania Camila Pulido Barrera, J. E. You, Angelo L. Angonezi et al. · 0 citations

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Google DeepMind Blog Sep 30, 2026

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Aug 27, 2026

Looking beyond natural sequences

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

Google DeepMind Blog Nov 25, 2025

AlphaFold: Five years of impact

Explore how AlphaFold has accelerated science and fueled a global wave of biological discovery.

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