Unmasking AlphaFold to predict large protein complexes

It can now take in information from experiments and partial data as well as predict very large and complex protein structures. In all living organisms, there is a huge variety of proteins that regulate cell functions. Basically, everything that happens in the body, from controlling muscles and forming hair to transporting oxygen into the blood and digesting food, involves proteins. But proteins are also found outside the body in, for example, detergents and medical drugs. Proteins are large molecules consisting of 20 different amino acids that stick together in long rows, much like beads in a necklace.