Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Ultrahigh specificity in a network of computationally designed protein-interaction pairs

  • Ravit Netzer,
  • Dina Listov,
  • Rosalie Lipsh,
  • Orly Dym,
  • Shira Albeck,
  • Orli Knop,
  • Colin Kleanthous,
  • Sarel J. Fleishman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07722-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The molecular basis of ultrahigh specificity in protein-protein interactions remains obscure. The authors present a computational method to design atomically accurate new pairs exhibiting >100,000-fold specificity switches, generating a large and complex interaction network.