Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Design of a methotrexate-controlled chemical dimerization system and its use in bio-electronic devices

  • Zhong Guo,
  • Oleh Smutok,
  • Wayne A. Johnston,
  • Patricia Walden,
  • Jacobus P. J. Ungerer,
  • Thomas S. Peat,
  • Janet Newman,
  • Jake Parker,
  • Tom Nebl,
  • Caryn Hepburn,
  • Artem Melman,
  • Richard J. Suderman,
  • Evgeny Katz,
  • Kirill Alexandrov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27184-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Efforts to engineer artificial allosteric systems are ongoing. Here the authors analyse factors influencing development of artificial small molecule:protein complexes that act as chemically induced dimerization (CID) systems; they use one of the CIDs to construct an electrochemical biosensor of methotrexate.