Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Predicting locations of cryptic pockets from single protein structures using the PocketMiner graph neural network

  • Artur Meller,
  • Michael Ward,
  • Jonathan Borowsky,
  • Meghana Kshirsagar,
  • Jeffrey M. Lotthammer,
  • Felipe Oviedo,
  • Juan Lavista Ferres,
  • Gregory R. Bowman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36699-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Cryptic pockets enable targeting of proteins currently considered undruggable because they lack pockets in their ground state structures. Here, the authors develop a graph neural network that accurately predicts cryptic pockets in static structures by training using molecular simulation data alone.