Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Alderson, TR; Pritišanac, I; Kolarić, Đ; Moses, AM; Forman-Kay, JD.
Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023; 120(44): e2304302120
Doi: 10.1073/pnas.2304302120
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- Alderson Thomas Reid
- Pritisanac Iva
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- Abstract:
- The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database contains predicted structures for millions of proteins. For the majority of human proteins that contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), which do not adopt a stable structure, it is generally assumed that these regions have low AlphaFold2 confidence scores that reflect low-confidence structural predictions. Here, we show that AlphaFold2 assigns confident structures to nearly 15% of human IDRs. By comparison to experimental NMR data for a subset of IDRs that are known to conditionally fold (i.e., upon binding or under other specific conditions), we find that AlphaFold2 often predicts the structure of the conditionally folded state. Based on databases of IDRs that are known to conditionally fold, we estimate that AlphaFold2 can identify conditionally folding IDRs at a precision as high as 88% at a 10% false positive rate, which is remarkable considering that conditionally folded IDR structures were minimally represented in its training data. We find that human disease mutations are nearly fivefold enriched in conditionally folded IDRs over IDRs in general and that up to 80% of IDRs in prokaryotes are predicted to conditionally fold, compared to less than 20% of eukaryotic IDRs. These results indicate that a large majority of IDRs in the proteomes of human and other eukaryotes function in the absence of conditional folding, but the regions that do acquire folds are more sensitive to mutations. We emphasize that the AlphaFold2 predictions do not reveal functionally relevant structural plasticity within IDRs and cannot offer realistic ensemble representations of conditionally folded IDRs.
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- Humans - administration & dosage
- Intrinsically Disordered Proteins - chemistry
- Eukaryota - metabolism
- Protein Conformation - administration & dosage
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- AlphaFold2
- intrinsically disordered proteins
- structural biology
- conditional folding
- NMR spectroscopy