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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction

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AI-Predicted Protein Deformation Encodes Energy Landscape Perturbation.

John M McBride¹, Tsvi Tlusty^1,2

¹Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan 44919, South Korea.

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AI algorithms like AlphaFold2 predict protein structures and capture underlying physical principles. Unexpectedly, predicted structural strain alone correlates strongly with mutation-induced changes in protein stability, enabling new prediction methods.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Structural Biology
Biophysics

Background:

Artificial intelligence (AI) excels at predicting protein structures.
The extent to which AI models capture underlying protein physics is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if AlphaFold2 (AF) predictions encode physical information relevant to protein stability.
To assess the correlation between AF-predicted structural strain and experimental folding free energy changes (ΔΔG).

Main Methods:

Utilized AlphaFold2 to predict protein structures with single mutations.
Quantified structural deformation as physical strain.
Compared predicted strain with experimental ΔΔG data.

Main Results:

Physical strain derived solely from AF structures showed a strong correlation with experimental ΔΔG.
This correlation was comparable to state-of-the-art energy-based and machine-learning predictors.
AF-predicted structures inherently contain detailed information about the protein energy landscape.

Conclusions:

AlphaFold2-predicted structures alone encode significant information on protein stability.
This finding facilitates the development of novel structure-based predictors for mutation effects.
Opens new avenues for protein design and evolutionary studies.