9QUC

Metal-free de novo protein scaffold TFD-EH

9QUC の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb9quc/pdb
• 関連するPDBエントリー: 6ZV9
• 分子名称: TFD-EH, CITRIC ACID, 1,2-ETHANEDIOL, ... (4 entities in total)
• 機能のキーワード: tim barrel, enzyme engineering, metal coordination, conformational dynamics, de novo protein
• 由来する生物種: synthetic construct
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 1
• 化学式量合計: 19480.51

構造登録者

Wagner Egea, P.,Delhommel, F.,Mustafa, G.,Leiss-Maier, F.,Klimper, L.,Badmann, T.,Heider, A.,Wille, I.C.,Groll, M.,Sattler, M.,Zeymer, C. (登録日: 2025-04-10, 公開日: 2025-11-19)

主引用文献

Wagner Egea, P.,Delhommel, F.,Mustafa, G.,Leiss-Maier, F.,Klimper, L.,Badmann, T.,Heider, A.,Wille, I.,Groll, M.,Sattler, M.,Zeymer, C.
Modular protein scaffold architecture and AI-guided sequence optimization facilitate de novo metalloenzyme engineering.
Structure, 2025

PubMed Abstract: Incorporating metal cofactors into computationally designed protein scaffolds provides a versatile route to novel protein functions, including the potential for new-to-nature enzyme catalysis. However, a major challenge in protein design is to understand how the scaffold architecture influences conformational dynamics. Here, we characterized structure and dynamics of a modular de novo scaffold with flexible inter-domain linkers. Three rationally engineered variants with different metal specificity were studied by combining X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations. The lanthanide-binding variant was initially trapped in an inactive conformational state, which impaired efficient metal coordination and cerium-dependent photocatalytic activity. Stabilization of the active conformation by AI-guided sequence optimization using ProteinMPNN led to accelerated lanthanide binding and a 10-fold increase in k/K for a photoenzymatic model reaction. Our results suggest that modular scaffold architectures provide an attractive starting point for de novo metalloenzyme engineering and that ProteinMPNN-based sequence redesign can stabilize desired conformational states.

PubMed: 41197620
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2025.10.010

実験手法

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.6 Å)