CAS Key Lab for Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China.
Cell Host Microbe. 2023 Aug 9;31(8):1251-1253. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.06.017.
In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Maasch et al. built a deep-learning model for proteolytic site prediction and applied this approach to modern and extinct human proteomes, revealing antimicrobial peptides. The de-extinction of archaic encrypted peptides provides a revolutionary approach for discovering functional peptides with therapeutic potential.
在本期《细胞宿主与微生物》中,Maasch 等人构建了一个用于蛋白酶切割位点预测的深度学习模型,并将该方法应用于现代和已灭绝的人类蛋白质组,揭示了抗菌肽。古代加密肽的复活提供了一种革命性的方法,可以发现具有治疗潜力的功能肽。