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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2000-02-26
    Description: The hinge region on the Fc fragment of human immunoglobulin G interacts with at least four different natural protein scaffolds that bind at a common site between the C(H2) and C(H3) domains. This "consensus" site was also dominant for binding of random peptides selected in vitro for high affinity (dissociation constant, about 25 nanomolar) by bacteriophage display. Thus, this site appears to be preferred owing to its intrinsic physiochemical properties, and not for biological function alone. A 2.7 angstrom crystal structure of a selected 13-amino acid peptide in complex with Fc demonstrated that the peptide adopts a compact structure radically different from that of the other Fc binding proteins. Nevertheless, the specific Fc binding interactions of the peptide strongly mimic those of the other proteins. Juxtaposition of the available Fc-complex crystal structures showed that the convergent binding surface is highly accessible, adaptive, and hydrophobic and contains relatively few sites for polar interactions. These are all properties that may promote cross-reactive binding, which is common to protein-protein interactions and especially hormone-receptor complexes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉DeLano, W L -- Ultsch, M H -- de Vos, A M -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Feb 18;287(5456):1279-83.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA and Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, 3696 Haven Avenue, Suite C, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10678837" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Binding Sites, Antibody ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dimerization ; Evolution, Molecular ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments/chemistry/*metabolism ; Immunoglobulin G/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ligands ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Library ; Peptides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, Fc/chemistry/metabolism ; Rheumatoid Factor/chemistry/metabolism ; Staphylococcal Protein A/metabolism
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2010-01-08
    Description: Archaea, one of three major evolutionary lineages of life, encode proteasomes highly related to those of eukaryotes. In contrast, archaeal ubiquitin-like proteins are less conserved and not known to function in protein conjugation. This has complicated our understanding of the origins of ubiquitination and its connection to proteasomes. Here we report two small archaeal modifier proteins, SAMP1 and SAMP2, with a beta-grasp fold and carboxy-terminal diglycine motif similar to ubiquitin, that form protein conjugates in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii. The levels of SAMP-conjugates were altered by nitrogen-limitation and proteasomal gene knockout and spanned various functions including components of the Urm1 pathway. LC-MS/MS-based collision-induced dissociation demonstrated isopeptide bonds between the C-terminal glycine of SAMP2 and the epsilon-amino group of lysines from a number of protein targets and Lys 58 of SAMP2 itself, revealing poly-SAMP chains. The widespread distribution and diversity of pathways modified by SAMPylation suggest that this type of protein conjugation is central to the archaeal lineage.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872088/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872088/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Humbard, Matthew A -- Miranda, Hugo V -- Lim, Jae-Min -- Krause, David J -- Pritz, Jonathan R -- Zhou, Guangyin -- Chen, Sixue -- Wells, Lance -- Maupin-Furlow, Julie A -- 1S10 RR025418-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR018502/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR018502-07/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057498/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):54-60. doi: 10.1038/nature08659.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054389" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Archaeal Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Gene Deletion ; Glycylglycine/metabolism ; Haloferax volcanii/genetics/metabolism ; Immunoprecipitation ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nitrogen/metabolism ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/genetics/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Sulfur/metabolism ; Ubiquitination ; Ubiquitins/chemistry/*metabolism
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    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1990-12-21
    Description: Human growth hormone (hGH) elicits a diverse set of biological activities including lactation that derives from binding to the prolactin (PRL) receptor. The binding affinity of hGH for the extracellular binding domain of the hPRL receptor (hPRLbp) was increased about 8000-fold by addition of 50 micromolar ZnCl2. Zinc was not required for binding of hGH to the hGH binding protein (hGHbp) or for binding of hPRL to the hPRLbp. Other divalent metal ions (Ca2+, Mg2+, Cu2+, Mn2+, and Co2+) at physiological concentrations did not support such strong binding. Scatchard analysis indicated a stoichiometry of one Zn2+ per hGH.hPRLbp complex. Mutational analysis showed that a cluster of three residues (His18, His21, and Glu174) in hGH and His188 from the hPRLbp (conserved in all PRL receptors but not GH receptors) are probable Zn2+ ligands. This polypeptide hormone.receptor "zinc sandwich" provides a molecular mechanism to explain why nonprimate GHs are not lactogenic and offers a molecular link between zinc deficiency and its association with altered functions of hGH.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cunningham, B C -- Bass, S -- Fuh, G -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Dec 21;250(4988):1709-12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2270485" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chlorides/*pharmacology ; Growth Hormone/*metabolism ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Oligonucleotide Probes ; Plasmids ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Prolactin/drug effects/genetics/*metabolism ; Restriction Mapping ; Zinc/metabolism/*pharmacology ; *Zinc Compounds
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1991-08-02
    Description: Size-exclusion chromatography and sedimentation equilbrium studies demonstrated that zinc ion (Zn2+) induced the dimerization of human growth hormone (hGH). Scatchard analysis of 65Zn2+ binding to hGH showed that two Zn2+ ions associate per dimer of hGH in a cooperative fashion. Cobalt (II) can substitute for Zn2+ in the hormone dimer and gives a visible spectrum characteristic of cobalt coordinated in a tetrahedral fashion by oxygen- and nitrogen-containing ligands. Replacement of potential Zn2+ ligands (His18, His21, and Glu174) in hGH with alanine weakened both Zn2+ binding and hGH dimer formation. The Zn(2+)-hGH dimer was more stable than monomeric hGH to denaturation in guanidine-HCl. Formation of a Zn(2+)-hGH dimeric complex may be important for storage of hGH in secretory granules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cunningham, B C -- Mulkerrin, M G -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Aug 2;253(5019):545-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1907025" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chromatography, Gel ; Edetic Acid/pharmacology ; Growth Hormone/*metabolism ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Macromolecular Substances ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Denaturation ; Spectrophotometry ; Zinc/metabolism/*pharmacology
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1990-03-23
    Description: A strategy of iterative site-directed mutagenesis and binding analysis was used to incorporate the receptor-binding determinants from human growth hormone (hGH) into the nonbinding homolog, human prolactin (hPRL). The complementary DNA for hPRL was cloned, expressed in Escherichia coli, and mutated to introduce sequentially those substitutions from hGH that were predicted by alanine-scanning mutagenesis and other studies to be most critical for binding to the hGH receptor from human liver. After seven rounds of site-specific mutagenesis, a variant of hPRL was obtained containing eight mutations with an association constant for the hGH receptor that was increased more than 10,000-fold. This hPRL variant binds one-sixth as strongly as wild-type hGH, but shares only 26 percent overall sequence identity with hGH. These studies show the feasibility of recruiting receptor-binding properties from distantly related and functionally divergent hormones and show that a detailed functional database can be used to guide the design of a protein-protein interface in the absence of direct structural information.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cunningham, B C -- Henner, D J -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Mar 23;247(4949 Pt 1):1461-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2321008" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cloning, Molecular ; Growth Hormone/genetics ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Plasmids ; Prolactin/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Somatotropin/*metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1991-11-08
    Description: Human growth hormone (hGH) forms a 1:2 complex with the extracellular domain of its receptor-binding protein (hGHbp) as studied by crystallization, size exclusion chromatography, calorimetry, and a previously undescribed fluorescence quenching assay. These and other experiments with protein engineered variants of hGH have led to the identification of the binding determinants for two distinct but adjacent sites on hGH for the hGHbp, and the data indicated that there are two overlapping binding sites on the hGHbp for hGH. Furthermore, the binding of hGH to the hGHbp occurred sequentially; a first hGHbp molecule bound to site 1 on hGH and then a second hGHbp bound to site 2. Hormone-induced receptor dimerization is proposed to be relevant to the signal transduction mechanism for the hGH receptor and other related cytokine receptors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cunningham, B C -- Ultsch, M -- De Vos, A M -- Mulkerrin, M G -- Clauser, K R -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Nov 8;254(5033):821-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1948064" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Binding Sites ; Chromatography, Gel ; Growth Hormone/*metabolism ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Macromolecular Substances ; Models, Structural ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Somatotropin/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1997-09-12
    Description: Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus encodes a chemokine called vMIP-II. This protein displayed a broader spectrum of receptor activities than any mammalian chemokine as it bound with high affinity to a number of both CC and CXC chemokine receptors. Binding of vMIP-II, however, was not associated with the normal, rapid mobilization of calcium from intracellular stores; instead, it blocked calcium mobilization induced by endogenous chemokines. In freshly isolated human monocytes the virally encoded vMIP-II acted as a potent and efficient antagonist of chemotaxis induced by chemokines. Because vMIP-II could inhibit cell entry of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) mediated through CCR3 and CCR5 as well as CXCR4, this protein may serve as a lead for development of broad-spectrum anti-HIV agents.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kledal, T N -- Rosenkilde, M M -- Coulin, F -- Simmons, G -- Johnsen, A H -- Alouani, S -- Power, C A -- Luttichau, H R -- Gerstoft, J -- Clapham, P R -- Clark-Lewis, I -- Wells, T N -- Schwartz, T W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Sep 12;277(5332):1656-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9287217" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Calcium/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Chemokine CCL5/antagonists & inhibitors ; Chemokines/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Chemotaxis, Leukocyte ; HIV-1/physiology ; Herpesvirus 8, Human/*genetics ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Monocytes/cytology ; Receptors, Cytokine/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Receptors, HIV/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology ; Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 1995-12-08
    Description: A stepwise approach for reducing the size of a polypeptide hormone, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), from 28 residues to 15 while retaining high biopotency is described. Systematic structural and functional analysis identified a discontinuous functional epitope for receptor binding and activation, most of which was placed onto a smaller ring (Cys6 to Cys17) that was created by repositioning the ANP native disulfide bond (Cys7 to Cys23). High affinity was subsequently restored by optimizing the remaining noncritical residues by means of phage display. Residues that flanked the mini-ring structure were then deleted in stages, and affinity losses were rectified by additional phage-sorting experiments. Thus, structural and functional data on hormones, coupled with phage display methods, can be used to shrink the hormones to moieties more amendable to small-molecule design.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, B -- Tom, J Y -- Oare, D -- Yen, R -- Fairbrother, W J -- Wells, J A -- Cunningham, B C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Dec 8;270(5242):1657-60.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genenteeh, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7502074" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Atrial Natriuretic Factor/*chemistry/genetics/immunology/metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Cell Line ; Cyclic GMP/metabolism ; Epitopes ; Guanylate Cyclase/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Protein Conformation ; *Protein Engineering ; Receptors, Atrial Natriuretic Factor/metabolism
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1996-07-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Jul 26;273(5274):449-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genetech, San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8677438" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacteriophages ; Erythropoietin/chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; *Molecular Mimicry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Peptides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Receptors, Erythropoietin/agonists/*metabolism
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 1994-10-14
    Description: An engineered variant of subtilisin BPN', termed subtiligase, which efficiently ligates esterified peptides in aqueous solution, was used for the complete synthesis of ribonuclease (RNase) A that contains unnatural catalytic residues. Fully active RNase A (124 residues long) was produced in milligram quantities by stepwise ligation of six esterified peptide fragments (each 12 to 30 residues long) at yields averaging 70 percent per ligation. Variants of RNase A were produced in which the catalytic histidines at positions 12 and 119 were substituted with the unnatural amino acid 4-fluorohistidine, which has a pKa of 3.5 compared to 6.8 for histidine. Large changes in the profile of the pH as it affects rate occurred for the single and double mutants with surprisingly little change in the kcat for either the RNA cleavage or hydrolysis steps. The data indicate that these imidazoles function as general acids and bases, but that the proton transfer steps are not rate-limiting when the imidazoles are present in their correct protonation states. These studies indicate the potential of subtiligase for the blockwise synthesis of large proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jackson, D Y -- Burnier, J -- Quan, C -- Stanley, M -- Tom, J -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 14;266(5183):243-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939659" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Esterification ; Histidine/analogs & derivatives/analysis ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Nucleotides, Cyclic/metabolism ; Protein Engineering/*methods ; Ribonuclease, Pancreatic/*chemical synthesis/chemistry/isolation & purification ; Subtilisins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Uridine Monophosphate/metabolism
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