7UEK

Crystal structure of a de novo designed ovoid TIM barrel OT3

Summary for 7UEK

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb7uek/pdb
• Descriptor: OT3 (2 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: tim barrel, de novo, oval curvature, de novo protein
• Biological source: synthetic construct
• Total number of polymer chains: 1
• Total formula weight: 28003.38

Authors

Chu, A.E.,Fernandez, D.,Huang, P.-S. (deposition date: 2022-03-21, release date: 2023-01-18, Last modification date: 2024-04-03)

Primary citation

Chu, A.E.,Fernandez, D.,Liu, J.,Eguchi, R.R.,Huang, P.S.
De Novo Design of a Highly Stable Ovoid TIM Barrel: Unlocking Pocket Shape towards Functional Design.
Biodes Res, 2022:9842315-9842315, 2022

PubMed Abstract: The ability to finely control the structure of protein folds is an important prerequisite to functional protein design. The TIM barrel fold is an important target for these efforts as it is highly enriched for diverse functions in nature. Although a TIM barrel protein has been designed de novo, the ability to finely alter the curvature of the central beta barrel and the overall architecture of the fold remains elusive, limiting its utility for functional design. Here, we report the de novo design of a TIM barrel with ovoid (twofold) symmetry, drawing inspiration from natural beta and TIM barrels with ovoid curvature. We use an autoregressive backbone sampling strategy to implement our hypothesis for elongated barrel curvature, followed by an iterative enrichment sequence design protocol to obtain sequences which yield a high proportion of successfully folding designs. Designed sequences are highly stable and fold to the designed barrel curvature as determined by a 2.1 Å resolution crystal structure. The designs show robustness to drastic mutations, retaining high melting temperatures even when multiple charged residues are buried in the hydrophobic core or when the hydrophobic core is ablated to alanine. As a scaffold with a greater capacity for hosting diverse hydrogen bonding networks and installation of binding pockets or active sites, the ovoid TIM barrel represents a major step towards the de novo design of functional TIM barrels.

PubMed: 37850141
DOI: 10.34133/2022/9842315

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.1 Å)