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Resolving Affinity Purified Protein Complexes by Blue Native PAGE and Protein Correlation Profiling
Published on: April 1, 2017
Computed structures of core eukaryotic protein complexes
Ian R Humphreys1,2, Jimin Pei3,4, Minkyung Baek1,2
1Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Abstract:
Protein-protein interactions play critical roles in biology, but the structures of many eukaryotic protein complexes are unknown, and there are likely many interactions not yet identified. We take advantage of advances in proteome-wide amino acid coevolution analysis and deep-learning–based structure modeling to systematically identify and build accurate models of core eukaryotic protein complexes within the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome. We use a combination of RoseTTAFold and AlphaFold to screen through paired multiple sequence alignments for 8.3 million pairs of yeast proteins, identify 1505 likely to interact, and build structure models for 106 previously unidentified assemblies and 806 that have not been structurally characterized. These complexes, which have as many as five subunits, play roles in almost all key processes in eukaryotic cells and provide broad insights into biological function.
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