Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Structure-based machine-guided mapping of amyloid sequence space reveals uncharted sequence clusters with higher solubilities

  • Nikolaos Louros,
  • Gabriele Orlando,
  • Matthias De Vleeschouwer,
  • Frederic Rousseau,
  • Joost Schymkowitz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17207-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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An increasing number of amyloid structures are determined. Here, the authors present the structure-based amyloid core sequence prediction method Cordax that is based on machine learning and allows the detection of aggregation-prone regions with higher solubility, disorder and surface exposure, and furthermore predicts the structural topology, orientation and overall architecture of the resulting putative fibril core.