| Computational design of receptors for an organophosphate surrogate of the nerve agent soman. | |
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PMID: 15148405 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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We report the computational design of soluble protein receptors for pinacolyl methyl phosphonic acid (PMPA), the predominant hydrolytic product of the nerve agent soman. Using recently developed computational protein design techniques, the ligand-binding pockets of two periplasmic binding proteins, glucose-binding protein and ribose-binding protein, were converted to bind PMPA instead of their cognate sugars. The designs introduce 9-12 mutations in the parent proteins. Twelve of 20 designs tested exhibited PMPA-dependent changes in emission intensity of a fluorescent reporter with affinities between 45 nM and 10 microM. The contributions to ligand binding by individual residues were determined in two designs by alanine-scanning mutagenesis, and are consistent with the molecular models. These results demonstrate that designed receptors with radically altered binding specificities and affinities that rival or exceed those of the parent proteins can be successfully predicted. The designs vary in parent scaffold, sequence diversity, and orientation of docked ligand, suggesting that the number of possible solutions to the design problem is large and degenerate. This observation has implications for the genesis of biological function by random processes. The designed receptors reported here may have utility in the development of fluorescent biosensors for monitoring nerve agents. |
Authors:
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Malin Allert; Shahir S Rizk; Loren L Looger; Homme W Hellinga |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Date: 2004-05-17 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Volume: 101 ISSN: 0027-8424 ISO Abbreviation: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Publication Date: 2004 May |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2004-05-26 Completed Date: 2004-07-09 Revised Date: 2013-04-18 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7505876 Medline TA: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 7907-12 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Molecular Cancer Biology, Box 3711, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. |
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Binding Sites Biosensing Techniques Computer Simulation* Drug Design* Ligands Models, Molecular Mutagenesis / genetics Protein Binding Receptors, Cell Surface / chemistry, genetics*, metabolism* Soman / analogs & derivatives*, metabolism* Substrate Specificity Thermodynamics |
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0/Ligands; 0/Receptors, Cell Surface; 96-64-0/Soman; 99YXE507IL/pinacolyl methylphosphonic acid |
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