Journal: Nature / Year: 2024 Title: De novo design of allosterically switchable protein assemblies. Authors: Arvind Pillai / Abbas Idris / Annika Philomin / Connor Weidle / Rebecca Skotheim / Philip J Y Leung / Adam Broerman / Cullen Demakis / Andrew J Borst / Florian Praetorius / David Baker / Abstract: Allosteric modulation of protein function, wherein the binding of an effector to a protein triggers conformational changes at distant functional sites, plays a central part in the control of ...Allosteric modulation of protein function, wherein the binding of an effector to a protein triggers conformational changes at distant functional sites, plays a central part in the control of metabolism and cell signalling. There has been considerable interest in designing allosteric systems, both to gain insight into the mechanisms underlying such 'action at a distance' modulation and to create synthetic proteins whose functions can be regulated by effectors. However, emulating the subtle conformational changes distributed across many residues, characteristic of natural allosteric proteins, is a significant challenge. Here, inspired by the classic Monod-Wyman-Changeux model of cooperativity, we investigate the de novo design of allostery through rigid-body coupling of peptide-switchable hinge modules to protein interfaces that direct the formation of alternative oligomeric states. We find that this approach can be used to generate a wide variety of allosterically switchable systems, including cyclic rings that incorporate or eject subunits in response to peptide binding and dihedral cages that undergo effector-induced disassembly. Size-exclusion chromatography, mass photometry and electron microscopy reveal that these designed allosteric protein assemblies closely resemble the design models in both the presence and absence of peptide effectors and can have ligand-binding cooperativity comparable to classic natural systems such as haemoglobin. Our results indicate that allostery can arise from global coupling of the energetics of protein substructures without optimized side-chain-side-chain allosteric communication pathways and provide a roadmap for generating allosterically triggerable delivery systems, protein nanomachines and cellular feedback control circuitry.
Evidence: electron microscopy, CryoEM and Negative Stain, light scattering, Mass Photometry, gel filtration, Size-exclusion chromatography
Type
Name
Symmetry operation
Number
identity operation
1_555
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Components
#1: Protein
sr312
Mass: 47297.691 Da / Num. of mol.: 4 Source method: isolated from a genetically manipulated source Source: (gene. exp.) synthetic construct (others) / Production host: Escherichia coli (E. coli)
#2: Protein/peptide
Effectorpeptidecs221B
Mass: 3091.635 Da / Num. of mol.: 4 / Source method: obtained synthetically / Source: (synth.) synthetic construct (others)
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Experimental details
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Experiment
Experiment
Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
EM experiment
Aggregation state: PARTICLE / 3D reconstruction method: single particle reconstruction
Electron dose: 43 e/Å2 / Film or detector model: GATAN K3 (6k x 4k) / Num. of real images: 3795
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Processing
EM software
ID
Name
Category
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cryoSPARC
particleselection
2
SerialEM
imageacquisition
4
cryoSPARC
CTFcorrection
10
cryoSPARC
initialEulerassignment
11
cryoSPARC
finalEulerassignment
12
cryoSPARC
classification
13
cryoSPARC
3Dreconstruction
CTF correction
Type: PHASE FLIPPING AND AMPLITUDE CORRECTION
Particle selection
Num. of particles selected: 971294
Symmetry
Point symmetry: C4 (4 fold cyclic)
3D reconstruction
Resolution: 4.4 Å / Resolution method: FSC 0.143 CUT-OFF / Num. of particles: 58251 / Algorithm: FOURIER SPACE / Num. of class averages: 1 / Symmetry type: POINT
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