[chimerax-users] AlphaFold model for large proteins

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Yunsik,

  Inspired by your question and Tristan Croll's comment that the AlphaFold database has human proteins longer than 1400 amino acids computed as separate 1400 amino acid chunks I made a ChimeraX command "bigalpha" that loads and aligns these chunks.

	https://rbvi.github.io/chimerax-recipes/big_alphafold/bigalpha.html

I attach two images and a PDB model made by running that command in ChimeraX for 5005 amino acid transmembrane protein

	Q2LD37 | K1109_HUMAN Transmembrane protein KIAA1109 OS=Homo sapiens OX=9606 GN=KIAA1109 PE=1 SV=2

and also here are a few other examples I looked at yesterday.

	https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435870388043411458 <https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435870388043411458>

	https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435760774824169474 <https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435760774824169474>

	https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435859111053193216 <https://twitter.com/UCSFChimeraX/status/1435859111053193216>

Keep in mind that the pieces of these models are not aligned in a reliable way and probably clash badly with each other because AlphaFold did not compute them as part of one structure.  So these structures should only give you a very rough idea about the protein.

  Tom

This is the confidence coloring determined by AlphaFold, red low, blue high confidence.  To reproduce this color using ChimeraX daily build open the PDB model and type command "color bfactor #1 palette alphafold".  (The confidence value is saved as the bfactor in the PDB file).


Different AlphaFold chunks have different colors and chain identifiers in the PDB model.




> On Sep 8, 2021, at 2:45 PM, Yunsik Kang via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> My name is Yunsik Kang, and I am a postdoc in Marc Freeman’s lab at the Vollum Institute.
>  
> I would love to use ChimeraX to predict the structure of my protein of interest. I watched all the YouTube videos and tried to run the program.
>  
> Unfortunately, my protein is 5005 amino acids in humans and 2958 aa in yeast. I get a message “Please use the full AlphaFold system for long sequences.”
>  
> My question is what is the best way to approach this problem? Should I cut the protein in half and run the program? In one of the videos, it mentions after 700 aa it will have problems. Will it work if I get Colab-Pro? Or would the server crash no matter what.
>  
> I am not a structural biologist, but I hope the structure can help be predict me with my research.  
>  
> Thank you,
> Yunsik
>  
>  
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