Catalysis and Electron Transfer in De Novo Designed Metalloproteins

KJ Koebke, TBJ Pinter, WC Pitts, VL Pecoraro - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
One of the hallmark advances in our understanding of metalloprotein function is showcased
in our ability to design new, non-native, catalytically active protein scaffolds. This review …

Self‐Assembly of Functional Discrete Three‐Dimensional Architectures in Water

LLK Taylor, IA Riddell… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Construction of discrete, self‐assembled architectures in water has gained significant
interest in recent years as a wide range of applications arises from their defined 3D …

Heteromeric three-stranded coiled coils designed using a Pb(ii)(Cys)3 template mediated strategy

AE Tolbert, CS Ervin, L Ruckthong, TJ Paul… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Three-stranded coiled coils are peptide structures constructed from amphipathic heptad
repeats. Here we show that it is possible to form pure heterotrimeric three-stranded coiled …

Relationship of Thermostability and Binding Affinity in Metal‐binding WW‐Domain Minireceptors

TL Pham, MR Conde González, S Fazliev… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The design of metallo‐miniproteins advances our understanding of the structural and
functional roles of metals in proteins. We recently designed a metal‐binding WW domain …

Rational design of photosynthetic reaction center protein maquettes

NM Ennist, SE Stayrook, PL Dutton… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
New technologies for efficient solar-to-fuel energy conversion will help facilitate a global shift
from dependence on fossil fuels to renewable energy. Nature uses photosynthetic reaction …

Human LINE-1 retrotransposition requires a metastable coiled coil and a positively charged N-terminus in L1ORF1p

E Khazina, O Weichenrieder - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
LINE-1 (L1) is an autonomous retrotransposon, which acted throughout mammalian
evolution and keeps contributing to human genotypic diversity, genetic disease and cancer …

Location‐Dependent Lanthanide Selectivity Engineered into Structurally Characterized Designed Coiled Coils

LN Slope, OJ Daubney, H Campbell… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein we report unprecedented location‐dependent, size‐selective binding to designed
lanthanide (Ln3+) sites within miniature protein coiled coil scaffolds. Not only do these …

Design and engineering of artificial metalloproteins: from de novo metal coordination to catalysis

AS Klein, C Zeymer - Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Metalloproteins are essential to sustain life. Natural evolution optimized them for intricate
structural, regulatory and catalytic functions that cannot be fulfilled by either a protein or a …

Peptides and metal ions: A successful marriage for develo** artificial metalloproteins

L Leone, M De Fenza, A Esposito… - Journal of Peptide …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The mutual relationship between peptides and metal ions enables metalloproteins to have
crucial roles in biological systems, including structural, sensing, electron transport, and …

Catalysis and electron transfer in de novo designed helical scaffolds

TBJ Pinter, KJ Koebke… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between protein structure and function is one of the greatest puzzles within
biochemistry. De novo metalloprotein design is a way to wipe the board clean and …