Small-molecule binding and sensing with a designed protein family

Despite transformative advances in protein design with deep learning, the design of small-molecule-binding proteins and sensors for arbitrary ligands remains a grand challenge. Here we combine deep learning and physics-based methods to generate a family of proteins with diverse and designable pocket geometries, which we employ to computationally design binders for six chemically and structurally distinct small-molecule targets. Biophysical characterization of the designed binders revealed nanomolar to low micromolar binding affinities and atomic-level design accuracy. The bound ligands are exposed at one edge of the binding pocket, enabling the de novo design of chemically induced dimerization (CID) systems; we take advantage of this to create a biosensor with nanomolar sensitivity for cortisol. Our approach provides a general method to design proteins that bind and sense small molecules for a wide range of analytical, environmental, and biomedical applications.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 02. Nov.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Gyu Rie [VerfasserIn]
Pellock, Samuel J [VerfasserIn]
Norn, Christoffer [VerfasserIn]
Tischer, Doug [VerfasserIn]
Dauparas, Justas [VerfasserIn]
Anischenko, Ivan [VerfasserIn]
Mercer, Jaron A M [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Bera, Asim [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Hannah [VerfasserIn]
Goreshnik, Inna [VerfasserIn]
Vafeados, Dionne [VerfasserIn]
Roullier, Nicole [VerfasserIn]
Han, Hannah L [VerfasserIn]
Coventry, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Haddox, Hugh K [VerfasserIn]
Liu, David R [VerfasserIn]
Yeh, Andy Hsien-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Baker, David [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 14.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2023.11.01.565201

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364529326