I am missing context here and would love to know more.
Say I know about ATP Synthase and how the proteins/molecules involved there interact to make a sort of motor.
How does AlphaFold help us understand that or more complicated systems?
Are proteins quite often dispersed and unique, finding each other to interact with? Or like ATP Synthase are they more of a specific blueprint which tends to arrange in the same way but in different forms?
In other words:
Situation 1) Are there many ATP synthase type situations we find too complex to understand - regular patterns and regular co-occurences of proteins but we don't understand them?
Situation 2) Or is most of the use of Protein situational and one-off? We see proteins only once or twice, very complicated ones, yet they do useful things?
I struggle to situate the problem of Unknown proteins without knowing which of the above two is true (and why?)
Say I know about ATP Synthase and how the proteins/molecules involved there interact to make a sort of motor.
How does AlphaFold help us understand that or more complicated systems?
Are proteins quite often dispersed and unique, finding each other to interact with? Or like ATP Synthase are they more of a specific blueprint which tends to arrange in the same way but in different forms?
In other words:
Situation 1) Are there many ATP synthase type situations we find too complex to understand - regular patterns and regular co-occurences of proteins but we don't understand them?
Situation 2) Or is most of the use of Protein situational and one-off? We see proteins only once or twice, very complicated ones, yet they do useful things?
I struggle to situate the problem of Unknown proteins without knowing which of the above two is true (and why?)