Protein Origami.

FROST damage to plants; PROTEINS; ORIGAMI; PROTEIN structure prediction

Where AI falls short Being able to model protein interactions would be a big advantage because most proteins don't operate in isolation. And proteins that work in a protein complex, two or more proteins interacting like parts of a machine, need the right shapes to snap into formation with their partners. PHOTO (COLOR): Expanding the protein universe Decades of slow-going experiments have revealed the structure of more than 194,000 proteins, all housed in the Protein Data Bank. The structure that the AI assigned to a protein called alpha-synuclein resembles the shape that the protein takes when it interacts with lipids, the team found. [Extracted from the article]

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