Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Discovering de novo peptide substrates for enzymes using machine learning

  • Lorillee Tallorin,
  • JiaLei Wang,
  • Woojoo E. Kim,
  • Swagat Sahu,
  • Nicolas M. Kosa,
  • Pu Yang,
  • Matthew Thompson,
  • Michael K. Gilson,
  • Peter I. Frazier,
  • Michael D. Burkart,
  • Nathan C. Gianneschi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07717-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The discovery of peptide substrates for enzymes with selective activities is a central goal in chemical biology. Here, the authors develop a hybrid method combining machine learning and experimental testing for fast optimization of peptides for specific, orthogononal functions.