Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function

D Listov, CA Goverde, BE Correia… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The field of protein design has made remarkable progress over the past decade. Historically,
the low reliability of purely structure-based design methods limited their application, but …

Antibodies to combat viral infections: development strategies and progress

G Pantaleo, B Correia, C Fenwick, VS Joo… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are appealing as potential therapeutics and prophylactics for
viral infections owing to characteristics such as their high specificity and their ability to …

Broad betacoronavirus neutralization by a stem helix–specific human antibody

D Pinto, MM Sauer, N Czudnochowski, JS Low… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The spillovers of betacoronaviruses in humans and the emergence of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants highlight the need for broad …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Surrogate Wnt agonists that phenocopy canonical Wnt and β-catenin signalling

CY Janda, LT Dang, C You, J Chang, W De Lau… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Wnt proteins modulate cell proliferation and differentiation and the self-renewal of stem cells
by inducing β-catenin-dependent signalling through the Wnt receptor frizzled (FZD) and the …

HIV-1 vaccines based on antibody identification, B cell ontogeny, and epitope structure

PD Kwong, JR Mascola - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
HIV-1 vaccine development has been stymied by an inability to induce broadly reactive
neutralizing antibodies to the envelope (Env) trimer, the sole viral antigen on the virion …

The protein-folding problem, 50 years on

KA Dill, JL MacCallum - science, 2012 - science.org
The protein-folding problem was first posed about one half-century ago. The term refers to
three broad questions:(i) What is the physical code by which an amino acid sequence …

Structural basis for broad coronavirus neutralization

MM Sauer, MA Tortorici, YJ Park, AC Walls… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
Three highly pathogenic β-coronaviruses have crossed the animal-to-human species barrier
in the past two decades: SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. To evaluate the …

De novo protein design enables the precise induction of RSV-neutralizing antibodies

F Sesterhenn, C Yang, J Bonet, JT Cramer, X Wen… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ultimate goal of de novo protein design is to create proteins endowed
with new biological functions. From a structural perspective, this remains a challenge …

Structure-based design of a fusion glycoprotein vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

JS McLellan, M Chen, MG Joyce, M Sastry… - science, 2013 - science.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization for children under 5
years of age. We sought to engineer a viral antigen that provides greater protection than …