Making invisible excited state protein structures visible by combining NMR and machine learning
Bonin, J. P.; Lee, J. S.; Liu, Z. H.; Kim, P. M.; Kay, L. E.
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NMR relaxation studies of the precursor form of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-18, pro-IL-18, show that it adopts two sparsely populated (<0.5%) and transiently formed (ms lifetimes) excited state conformations in exchange with a highly populated ground state conformer. Although NMR data localize regions undergoing exchange to a pair of short {beta}-strands that are preserved in at least one of the excited states, additional structural information is not forthcoming. Here we develop a protocol whereby the NMR data is used to select alternative conformers of pro-IL-18 from ensembles predicted by the generative ML model AlphaFlow that are then evaluated through further NMR experiments. The approach identifies distinct excited state conformers and suggests a general method for combining experiment with computation to characterize protein energy landscapes.
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