Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

Accurate design of megadalton-scale two-component icosahedral protein complexes

JB Bale, S Gonen, Y Liu, W Sheffler, D Ellis, C Thomas… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Nature provides many examples of self-and co-assembling protein-based molecular
machines, including icosahedral protein cages that serve as scaffolds, enzymes, and …

Accurate design of co-assembling multi-component protein nanomaterials

NP King, JB Bale, W Sheffler, DE McNamara, S Gonen… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The self-assembly of proteins into highly ordered nanoscale architectures is a hallmark of
biological systems. The sophisticated functions of these molecular machines have inspired …

Computational design of self-assembling protein nanomaterials with atomic level accuracy

NP King, W Sheffler, MR Sawaya, BS Vollmar… - Science, 2012 - science.org
We describe a general computational method for designing proteins that self-assemble to a
desired symmetric architecture. Protein building blocks are docked together symmetrically to …

On the binding affinity of macromolecular interactions: daring to ask why proteins interact

PL Kastritis, AMJJ Bonvin - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions between proteins are orchestrated in a precise and time-dependent manner,
underlying cellular function. The binding affinity, defined as the strength of these …

Advances in antibody design

KE Tiller, PM Tessier - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The use of monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics requires optimizing several of their key
attributes. These include binding affinity and specificity, folding stability, solubility …

Reconfigurable asymmetric protein assemblies through implicit negative design

DD Sahtoe, F Praetorius, A Courbet, Y Hsia, BIM Wicky… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Asymmetric multiprotein complexes that undergo subunit exchange play central roles in
biology but present a challenge for design because the components must not only contain …

Computational design of self-assembling cyclic protein homo-oligomers

JA Fallas, G Ueda, W Sheffler, V Nguyen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Self-assembling cyclic protein homo-oligomers play important roles in biology, and the
ability to generate custom homo-oligomeric structures could enable new approaches to …

A comparison of successful and failed protein interface designs highlights the challenges of designing buried hydrogen bonds

PB Stranges, B Kuhlman - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate design of new protein–protein interactions is a longstanding goal of
computational protein design. However, most computationally designed interfaces fail to …