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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Putting AlphaFold models to work with phenix.process_predicted_model and ISOLDE
Robert D Oeffner1, Tristan I Croll1, Claudia Millán1
1Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, The Keith Peters Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
AlphaFold has recently become an important tool in providing models for experimental structure determination by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. Large parts of the predicted models typically approach the accuracy of experimentally determined structures, although there are frequently local errors and errors in the relative orientations of domains. Importantly, residues in the model of a protein predicted by AlphaFold are tagged with a predicted local distance difference test score, informing users about which regions of the structure are predicted with less confidence. AlphaFold also produces a predicted aligned error matrix indicating its confidence in the relative positions of each pair of residues in the predicted model. The phenix.process_predicted_model tool downweights or removes low-confidence residues and can break a model into confidently predicted domains in preparation for molecular replacement or cryo-EM docking. These confidence metrics are further used in ISOLDE to weight torsion and atom-atom distance restraints, allowing the complete AlphaFold model to be interactively rearranged to match the docked fragments and reducing the need for the rebuilding of connecting regions.
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