De novo protein fold families expand the designable ligand binding site space.

ABSTRACT: A major challenge in designing proteins de novo to bind user-defined ligands with high affinity is finding backbones structures into which a new binding site geometry can be engineered with high precision. Recent advances in methods to generate protein fold families de novo have expanded the space of accessible protein structures, but it is not clear to what extend de novo proteins with diverse geometries also expand the space of designable ligand binding functions. We constructed a library of 25,806 high-quality ligand binding sites and developed a fast protocol to place ("match") these binding sites into both naturally occurring and de novo protein families with two fold topologies: Rossman and NTF2. Each matching step involves engineering new binding site residues into each protein "sca

SUBMITTER: Pan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8648124 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature