PAthreader is a new method for the remote homologous template recognition and protein folding pathway prediction. First, the structure profile is extracted from PAcluster80, a template library constructed by clustering PDB and AlphaFold DB with a threshold of 80% structural similarity. Meanwhile, the distance profile is predicted by our in-house DeepMDisPre. Then, a three-track alignment algorithm is proposed to align the query sequence to each cluster seed to get the maximum alignment score (alignScore). As an supplement to alignScore, the physical and geometric features of the alignment structure are extracted and fed into a convolutional network with self-attention to predict DMScore (pDMScore), a global structure scoring metric linearly weighted with the alignScore for the template ranking. Subsequently, the frequency distribution of the residue is calculated based on different distance deviation thresholds of the templates. Finally, the secondary structure and the frequency distribution are employed to identify folding intermediates for exploring the folding pathway.


PAthreader Server

Please input the protein sequence (mandatory, recommended ≤ 1000 amino acids). Click for an example input

Or upload the fasta file:

Option I: Exclude some templates from the template library.

Option II: Predict protein folding pathway.

Email: (mandatory, where results will be sent to)

Job name: (optional, your given name to this job)

     

News
  • 2023/03/18: PAthreader was reported by the Center for Bioinformatics Research and Technology CBIRT.
  • 2022/11/12: PAthreader was randked No. 1 for the protein structure prediction in the six months CAMEO blind test.
  • 2022/10/08: PAthreader was randked No. 1 for the protein structure prediction in the three months CAMEO blind test.
  • 2022/08/06: PAthreader was randked No. 1 for the protein structure prediction in the three months CAMEO blind test.
  • 2022/06/18: We developed PAthreader for the remote homologous template recognition and protein folding pathway prediction.

  • References
  • Kailong Zhao, Yuhao Xia, Fujin Zhang, Xiaogen Zhou, Stan Z. Li, Guijun Zhang.Protein structure and folding pathway prediction based on remote homologs recognition using PAthreader. Communications biology, 6, 243 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04605-8