Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Engineering protein assemblies with allosteric control via monomer fold-switching

  • Luis A. Campos,
  • Rajendra Sharma,
  • Sara Alvira,
  • Federico M. Ruiz,
  • Beatriz Ibarra-Molero,
  • Mourad Sadqi,
  • Carlos Alfonso,
  • Germán Rivas,
  • Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz,
  • Antonio Romero Garrido,
  • José M. Valpuesta,
  • Victor Muñoz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13686-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The design of protein assemblies is a major thrust for biomolecular engineering and nanobiotechnology. Here the authors demonstrate a general mechanism for designing allosteric macromolecular assemblies and showcase a proof of concept for engineered allosteric protein assembly.