Publication Date:
1998-11-20
Description:
Recent advances in computational techniques have allowed the design of precise side-chain packing in proteins with predetermined, naturally occurring backbone structures. Because these methods do not model protein main-chain flexibility, they lack the breadth to explore novel backbone conformations. Here the de novo design of a family of alpha-helical bundle proteins with a right-handed superhelical twist is described. In the design, the overall protein fold was specified by hydrophobic-polar residue patterning, whereas the bundle oligomerization state, detailed main-chain conformation, and interior side-chain rotamers were engineered by computational enumerations of packing in alternate backbone structures. Main-chain flexibility was incorporated through an algebraic parameterization of the backbone. The designed peptides form alpha-helical dimers, trimers, and tetramers in accord with the design goals. The crystal structure of the tetramer matches the designed structure in atomic detail.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harbury, P B -- Plecs, J J -- Tidor, B -- Alber, T -- Kim, P S -- GM44162/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM48598/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM55758/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Nov 20;282(5393):1462-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9822371" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Circular Dichroism
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Computer Simulation
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Dimerization
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Molecular Weight
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Mutation
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Peptides/chemical synthesis/*chemistry
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*Protein Conformation
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Protein Denaturation
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*Protein Engineering
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*Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Proteins/chemical synthesis/*chemistry
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Thermodynamics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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