7UDJ

Crystal structure of designed helical repeat protein RPB_PEW3_R4 bound to PAWx4 peptide

Summary for 7UDJ

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb7udj/pdb
• Descriptor: 4xPAW peptide, De novo designed helical repeat protein RPB_PEW3_R4 (2 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: synthetic protein, designed helical repeat protein, peptide binder, de novo protein
• Biological source: synthetic construct; More
• Total number of polymer chains: 2
• Total formula weight: 22808.70

Authors

Redler, R.L.,Chang, Y.,Bhabha, G.,Ekiert, D. (deposition date: 2022-03-20, release date: 2023-03-22, Last modification date: 2024-04-03)

Primary citation

Wu, K.,Bai, H.,Chang, Y.T.,Redler, R.,McNally, K.E.,Sheffler, W.,Brunette, T.J.,Hicks, D.R.,Morgan, T.E.,Stevens, T.J.,Broerman, A.,Goreshnik, I.,DeWitt, M.,Chow, C.M.,Shen, Y.,Stewart, L.,Derivery, E.,Silva, D.A.,Bhabha, G.,Ekiert, D.C.,Baker, D.
De novo design of modular peptide-binding proteins by superhelical matching.
Nature, 616:581-589, 2023

PubMed Abstract: General approaches for designing sequence-specific peptide-binding proteins would have wide utility in proteomics and synthetic biology. However, designing peptide-binding proteins is challenging, as most peptides do not have defined structures in isolation, and hydrogen bonds must be made to the buried polar groups in the peptide backbone. Here, inspired by natural and re-engineered protein-peptide systems, we set out to design proteins made out of repeating units that bind peptides with repeating sequences, with a one-to-one correspondence between the repeat units of the protein and those of the peptide. We use geometric hashing to identify protein backbones and peptide-docking arrangements that are compatible with bidentate hydrogen bonds between the side chains of the protein and the peptide backbone. The remainder of the protein sequence is then optimized for folding and peptide binding. We design repeat proteins to bind to six different tripeptide-repeat sequences in polyproline II conformations. The proteins are hyperstable and bind to four to six tandem repeats of their tripeptide targets with nanomolar to picomolar affinities in vitro and in living cells. Crystal structures reveal repeating interactions between protein and peptide interactions as designed, including ladders of hydrogen bonds from protein side chains to peptide backbones. By redesigning the binding interfaces of individual repeat units, specificity can be achieved for non-repeating peptide sequences and for disordered regions of native proteins.

PubMed: 37020023
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05909-9

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.7 Å)