Evolución no supervisada de complejos de proteínas y anticuerpos con un modelo de lenguaje basado en la estructura

Varun R Shanker1,2,3, Theodora U J Bruun2,3,4, Brian L Hie3,4

  • 1Stanford Biophysics Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 4, 2024
PubMed
Resumen

La integración de la estructura de las proteínas en los modelos de lenguaje mejora el diseño y la evolución de las proteínas. Este enfoque mejoró las terapias de anticuerpos contra las variantes del SARS-CoV-2, lo que demuestra un método poderoso para la ingeniería de proteínas.

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