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Magnus Bauer

@kinasekid

Enjoying life one molecule at a time / Postdoc @UWproteindesign / Formerly @Stanford @LMU_Muenchen / tweeting in English, thinking in Bavarian, coding in Python
Seattle, WA oneprotein.ai Joined October 2011
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid
Can we program a kinase like a switch? Inspired by natural autoinhibitory complexes, we designed miniproteins against active- and inactive-like conformations of Focal Adhesion Kinase. Depending on the targeted state, the resulting binders either activated or inhibited the kinase.
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid
Check out this awesome work by Will 🙌

Always great to talk intracellular binders with you. So glad we got to work together on this, and grateful to have you as a friend in the lab!
Will Chen @wchenomics Oct 21
Thrilled to share my freshly "baked" Baker lab paper. We took a bottom-up approach to designing transcriptional regulators. Instead of relying on natural activation domains, we designed compact proteins that recruit specific cofactors. Activators for now, repressors to come!
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid
🥳 Steffen is the best! 🙌 Check out this awesome work by Long Tran, Steffen and the team!

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
www.science.org De novo design of orthogonal far-red, orange, and green fluorophore-binding proteins for multiple... Fluorescent proteins and small-molecule dyes offer complementary advantages for biological imaging: Proteins are amenable to genetic tagging, whereas dyes provide superior brightness and photostabi...
EMBL @embl Oct 22
💭How can AI help scientists study specific molecules in the crowded world of a cell?

Steffen Klein, together with the Baker Lab, used AI to design NovoTags, a new protein tag, helping scientists identify specific proteins inside cells via fluorescence microscopy.

#EMBL_AI
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid
Protein design doesn’t have to stop at the canonical 20 amino acids! After our work on phosphotyrosine binders, RFD4-Proteina adds phosphoserine and phosphothreonine (below) to the repertoire, with binders that distinguish adjacent H3pS10 and H3pT11 sites in the histone H3 tail!
Kieran Didi Verified account @DidiKieran Oct 21
@ArashVahdat @karsten_kreis @tomasgeffner @nscorley @RafiBrent @maxkazman @osclsd @nmboffi @ChoYehlin @jBonzaniniSci @noramcb The unified latent space pushes specificity further: with @kinasekid we bind phosphorylated serines and threonines specifically, and even site-selectively when they sit directly next to each other on a target! 22/30
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Magnus Bauer @kinasekid
Huge thanks to @bradyajohnston for #MolecularNodes! Such a fantastic tool for bringing our protein designs to life and making the science easier to share. Super visionary to build it! 🙌
Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston Oct 21
My little Blender plugin I started 4.5 years ago is literally the face of an entire Biotech industry / research sector 🥹

#b3d #GeometryNodes #MolecularNodes
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