Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Design of multi-scale protein complexes by hierarchical building block fusion

  • Yang Hsia,
  • Rubul Mout,
  • William Sheffler,
  • Natasha I. Edman,
  • Ivan Vulovic,
  • Young-Jun Park,
  • Rachel L. Redler,
  • Matthew J. Bick,
  • Asim K. Bera,
  • Alexis Courbet,
  • Alex Kang,
  • T. J. Brunette,
  • Una Nattermann,
  • Evelyn Tsai,
  • Ayesha Saleem,
  • Cameron M. Chow,
  • Damian Ekiert,
  • Gira Bhabha,
  • David Veesler,
  • David Baker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22276-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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De novo design of self-assembling protein nanostructures and materials is of significant interest, however design of complex, multi-component assemblies is challenging. Here, the authors present a stepwise hierarchical approach to build such assemblies using helical repeat and helical bundle proteins as building blocks, and provide an in-depth structural characterization of the resulting assemblies.