Microbial GAIN domains undergo autoproteolysis and enable release of diverse cell surface associated proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.12.724683v1
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
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Introducing nail - a Rust implementation of profile HMM sequence alignment for proteins. Near-HMMER sensitivity, but a lot faster:
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bioRxiv Microbiology
My latest work! We found that the autoproteolytic GAIN domain which mediates force responsive signaling in adhesion GPCRs is not unique to eukaryotes. The microbial counterparts anchor diverse adhesion, enzymatic, and toxin domains to the cell surface, enabling release by likely mechanical stimuli.
Fer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
How to keep in step when your (protein) partner speeds up…
Here we investigated the adaptive remodeling of a protein-protein interaction surface essential for telomere protection.
Congrats to whole team!
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Ph.D. finished! So many people to thank (pictured) but especially B. subtilis (& S. aureus & B. anthracis) (not pictured)
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦
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Does your designed active site already exist in nature? Is an uncharacterized protein hiding a catalytic site or a pocket? Folddisco answers both, searching millions of structures for a 3D motif in seconds.
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Now published in NSMB!
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Overview of additions since the preprint👇 (1/5)