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Inverse design of viral infectivity-enhancing peptide fibrils from continuous protein-vector embeddings

Kübra Kaygisiz, Arghya Dutta, Lena Rauch‐Wirth, Christopher V. Synatschke, Jan Münch, Tristan Bereau, Tanja Weil

2023Biomaterials Science15 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

sequences are the shortest active peptides for infectivity enhancement reported so far and show no sequence relation to the training set. Moreover, by screening the sequence space, we discovered the first hydrophobic peptide fibrils with a moderately negative surface charge that can enhance infectivity. Hence, this ML strategy is a time- and cost-efficient way for expanding the sequence space of short functional self-assembling peptides exemplified for therapeutic viral gene delivery.

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InfectivityPeptideInverseSupport vector machineVector (molecular biology)Monte Carlo methodFibrilComputational biologySampling (signal processing)ChemistryComputer scienceBiological systemBiophysicsAlgorithmBiologyVirologyArtificial intelligenceBiochemistryMathematicsStatisticsVirusRecombinant DNAGeneComputer visionFilter (signal processing)GeometryAntimicrobial Peptides and ActivitiesRNA Interference and Gene DeliveryRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms