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How much computing power would it take to design and fold this protein the same way? And how much longer until we have software which can do that? It'd be reall
by kylehotchkiss 2y ago
How much computing power would it take to design and fold this protein the same way? And how much longer until we have software which can do that? It'd be really cool to see what sort of super proteins we could design, all the "bugs" that would need to be updated with updated versions, and what we build on a larger scale with them. This thing looks massive enough it could just eat a small microorganism.
- ramraj07 2y agoThis protein is only slightly larger than the previously largest protein ever, Titin. Which is ubiquitously found in all your muscles so making such large proteins isn’t rocket science for our cells.
- _yb2s 2y agoThis protein folds into 140 individual small domains- we can easily cut it up into small chunks, and computationally fold each individual folding domain. Because of the modular nature of this type of protein (polyketide synthase or PKS) we actually can already design and build proteins like this.