Google DeepMind's Antigravity agent reportedly identifies a novel antimicrobial peptide candidate

A reply says a researcher tasked DeepMind's Antigravity agent with finding new bacteriocins in Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae, rather than creating a sequence from scratch. The agent identified UniProt entry A0A0U0D591, part of the Lactococcin 972 family, after screening uncharacterized peptides with ProtNLM. The reply says BLAST found no Swiss-Prot homologs, AlphaFold predicted a structure similar to a known bacteriocin, and genomic checks found nearby ABC transporters and regulators. Laboratory validation is ongoing.