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The AlphaLink2 paper is now online! It’s joint work with @rbolab and @JorgStulke. AlphaLink2 integrates crosslinking MS data into AlphaFold-Multimer. AlphaLink2 really shines for challenging targets like antigen-antibody complexes.

We got an ERC synergy grant to work on and understand with Julia Mahamid (EMBL), Jan Kosinsky (EMBL), and Rachel Green (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ribosomes inside their cellular context and develop tools to study molecular processes inside cells at atomic resolution.

#AlphaLink2 goes #ColabFold 😎 @sokrypton #AlphaFold 

With AlphaLink2 we can now start visualizing protein-protein interactions inside cells at pseudo-atomic resolution by leveraging the very scarce data of whole-cell crosslinking MS. We thank @deepmind and Uni-Fold (@guolin_ke, @LiZiyao11) for providing excellent open-source tools.

As a final note, sulfo-SDA crosslinks allow AlphaLink2 to position the viral protein within the Cullin4 complex's experimental density. (6/7)

The DockQ score would have been the same if only a single crosslink had been used. (5/7)

A validation of AlphaLink2 was conducted on real data from Bacillus subtilis cells crosslinked in situ with DSSO (O'Reilly et al.) and we demonstrated that even a single crosslink could significantly improve prediction accuracy. (4/7)

In this study, we demonstrate that crosslinking MS data significantly enhances the modelling of antibody-antigen targets. (3/7)

There is now a preprint available on bioRxiv (. You can download AlphaLink2 from (2/7).

In collaboration with the @rbolab, we are pleased to present AlphaLink2 - a modified version of AlphaFold-Multimer that is capable of directly incorporating experimental residue-residue contact data from crosslinking MS (and potentially other techniques as well). (1/7)

The AlphaLink-Multimer manuscript is also in progress. We are pleased with the results. Enjoy a sneak peek at what's to come.

AlphaLink can represent crosslinking MS restraints as distograms which generalise to arbitrary distance restraints and allows mixing different types of (experimental) distance restraints. We thank @deepmind, @MoAlQuraishi and OpenFold for providing such excellent tools!.

A few crosslinking MS restraints could act as “anchor points” to predict different conformational states of the kinase Cdk2 or fold-switching proteins. This has the potential to open up predictions of in-cell conformations of proteins from sparse restraints. (8/9)

One very interesting aspect of AlphaLink is the potential to “bias” structure predictions towards conformations observed under experimental conditions. (7/9).

The dataset included in-cell distance restraints on several membrane proteins, highlighting the potential of this novel technology. (6/9)

Therese Dau and Andrea Graziadei then produced and analysed a crosslinking MS dataset of the E. coli outer membrane using the “zero-length” crosslinker photo-leucine, which is directly incorporated into proteins. (5/9)

Kolja fine-tuned the network weights using simulated crosslinking MS data. AlphaLink leverages this experimental data to improve the predictions of OpenFold in the absence of large amounts of multiple sequence alignment information. (4/9)

Kolja Stahl used the excellent OpenFold from @MoAlQuraishi as a basis and then introduced biasing with experimental data by adding crosslinking MS restraints directly to the pair representation. (3/9)