AlphaFold2: A role for disordered protein prediction?
Preprint
- 27 September 2021
- preprint
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Abstract
The development of AlphaFold2 was a paradigm-shift in the structural biology community; herein we assess the ability of AlphaFold2 to predict disordered regions against traditional sequence-based disorder predictors. We find that a näaive use of Dictionary of Secondary Structure of Proteins (DSSP) to separate ordered from disordered regions leads to a dramatic overestimation in disorder content, and that the predicted Local Distance Difference Test (pLDDT) provides a much more rigorous metric. In addition, we show that even when used for disorder prediction, conventional predictors can outperform the pLDDT in disorder identification, and note an interesting relationship between the pLDDT and secondary structure, that may explain our observations, and hints at a broader application of the pLDDT to IDP dynamics.Keywords
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