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6TJ1

Crystal structure of a de novo designed hexameric helical-bundle protein

Summary for 6TJ1
Entry DOI10.2210/pdb6tj1/pdb
DescriptorDe novo designed WSHC6, purification tag (3 entities in total)
Functional Keywordshelical bundle, hexamer, computational protein design, pore, de novo protein, biosynthetic protein
Biological sourcesynthetic construct
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Total number of polymer chains4
Total formula weight32157.82
Authors
Xu, C.,Pei, X.Y.,Luisi, B.F.,Baker, D. (deposition date: 2019-11-23, release date: 2020-04-29, Last modification date: 2024-05-01)
Primary citationXu, C.,Lu, P.,Gamal El-Din, T.M.,Pei, X.Y.,Johnson, M.C.,Uyeda, A.,Bick, M.J.,Xu, Q.,Jiang, D.,Bai, H.,Reggiano, G.,Hsia, Y.,Brunette, T.J.,Dou, J.,Ma, D.,Lynch, E.M.,Boyken, S.E.,Huang, P.S.,Stewart, L.,DiMaio, F.,Kollman, J.M.,Luisi, B.F.,Matsuura, T.,Catterall, W.A.,Baker, D.
Computational design of transmembrane pores.
Nature, 585:129-134, 2020
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PubMed Abstract: Transmembrane channels and pores have key roles in fundamental biological processes and in biotechnological applications such as DNA nanopore sequencing, resulting in considerable interest in the design of pore-containing proteins. Synthetic amphiphilic peptides have been found to form ion channels, and there have been recent advances in de novo membrane protein design and in redesigning naturally occurring channel-containing proteins. However, the de novo design of stable, well-defined transmembrane protein pores that are capable of conducting ions selectively or are large enough to enable the passage of small-molecule fluorophores remains an outstanding challenge. Here we report the computational design of protein pores formed by two concentric rings of α-helices that are stable and monodisperse in both their water-soluble and their transmembrane forms. Crystal structures of the water-soluble forms of a 12-helical pore and a 16-helical pore closely match the computational design models. Patch-clamp electrophysiology experiments show that, when expressed in insect cells, the transmembrane form of the 12-helix pore enables the passage of ions across the membrane with high selectivity for potassium over sodium; ion passage is blocked by specific chemical modification at the pore entrance. When incorporated into liposomes using in vitro protein synthesis, the transmembrane form of the 16-helix pore-but not the 12-helix pore-enables the passage of biotinylated Alexa Fluor 488. A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the 16-helix transmembrane pore closely matches the design model. The ability to produce structurally and functionally well-defined transmembrane pores opens the door to the creation of designer channels and pores for a wide variety of applications.
PubMed: 32848250
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2646-5
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