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arXiv preprint arXiv Jan 2024 DOI:
10.2210/pdb8t5f/pdb

De novo design of high-affinity protein binders to bioactive helical peptides

Torres, S.V.; Leung, P.J.Y.; Bera, A.K.; Baker, D.; Kang, A.
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Abstract
Computational design of protein-binding proteins is a fundamental capability with broad utility in biomedical research and biotechnology. Recent methods have made strides against some target proteins, but on-demand creation of high-affinity binders without multiple rounds of experimental testing remains an unsolved challenge. This technical report introduces AlphaProteo, a family of machine learning models for protein design, and details its performance on the de novo binder design problem. With AlphaProteo, we achieve 3- to 300-fold better binding affinities and higher experimental success rates than the best existing methods on seven target proteins. Our results suggest that AlphaProteo can generate binders ready-to-use for many research applications using only one round of medium-throughput screening and no further optimization.
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