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Design of structurally distinct proteins using strategies inspired by evolution.

ABSTRACT: Natural recombination combines pieces of preexisting proteins to create new tertiary structures and functions. We describe a computational protocol, called SEWING, which is inspired by this process and builds new proteins from connected or disconnected pieces of existing structures. Helical proteins designed with SEWING contain structural features absent from other de novo designed proteins and, in some cases, remain folded at more than 100°C. High-resolution structures of the designed proteins CA01 and DA05R1 were solved by x-ray crystallography (2.2 angstrom resolution) and nuclear magnetic resonance, respectively, and there was excellent agreement with the design models. This method provides a new strategy to rapidly create large numbers of diverse and designable protein scaffolds.

SUBMITTER: Jacobs TM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4934125 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Design of structurally distinct proteins using strategies inspired by evolution.

Jacobs T M TM Williams B B Williams T T Xu X X Eletsky A A Federizon J F JF Szyperski T T Kuhlman B B

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20160501 6286

Natural recombination combines pieces of preexisting proteins to create new tertiary structures and functions. We describe a computational protocol, called SEWING, which is inspired by this process and builds new proteins from connected or disconnected pieces of existing structures. Helical proteins designed with SEWING contain structural features absent from other de novo designed proteins and, in some cases, remain folded at more than 100°C. High-resolution structures of the designed proteins ...[more]

PMID: 27151863

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