Desentrañar las restricciones coevolutivas para modelar la heterogeneidad conformacional de las proteínas

Shimian Li1,2, Chengwei Zhang3,4, Lupeng Kong2

  • 1New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Communications chemistry
|February 26, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

EvoSplit desentraña las señales coevolutivas de las proteínas para predecir distintas conformaciones de proteínas, mejorando la precisión de la predicción de la estructura para proteínas que cambian de pliegue e identificando nuevas estructuras de proteínas relacionadas con el cáncer.

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