{
  "id": 1706716,
  "title": "Entanglement-based continuum conformational landscape of proteins",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/entanglement-based-continuum-conformational-landscape-of-proteins",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-18T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.17.745258v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With the rapid development of AI methods that predict protein structures from sequence, understanding the structure-function relation increasingly depends on quantitative structural descriptors that are both biologically meaningful and scalable to large datasets. Here, we introduce mathematical topology metrics that quantify the entanglement complexity of a tertiary protein structure while…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}