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Global analysis of protein folding using massively parallel design, synthesis, and testing

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Rocklin, Gabriel J., Chidyausiku, Tamuka M., Goreshnik, Inna, Ford, Alex, Houliston, Scott, Lemak, Alexander, Carter, Lauren, Ravichandran, Rashmi +4 more·2017·Science

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Exploring structure space to understand stability: Understanding the determinants of protein stability is challenging because native proteins have conformations that are optimized for function. Proteins designed without functional bias could give insight into how structure determines stability, but this requires a large sample size. Rocklin et al. report a high-throughput protein design and characterization method that allows them to measure thousands of miniproteins (see the Perspective by Woolfson et al. ). Iterative rounds of design and characterization increased the design success rate from 6 to 47%, which provides insight into the balance of forces that determine protein stability. Science , this issue p. 168 ; see also p. 133

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  • A total of 84,690 scaffolds spanning 5 different topologies with structural metrics predictive of folding were encoded in large oligonucleotide arrays, and 34,507 of these were found to be stable using a high-throughput proteolysis-based protein stability assay.

    “A total of 84,690 scaffolds spanning 5 different topologies with structural metrics predictive of folding were encoded in large oligonucleotide arrays, and 34,507 of these were found to be stable using a high-throughput proteolysis-based protein stability assay10.”
  • Iterative design-build-test cycles in which the design method is updated at each iteration to incorporate feedback from the previous design round should lead to systematic improvements in the design methodology and success rate.

    “As found previously for designs of protein stability10, iterative design-build-test cycles in which the design method is updated at each iteration to incorporate feedback from the previous design round should lead to systematic improvements in the design methodology and success rate.”

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Rocklin, G. J., Chidyausiku, T. M., Goreshnik, I., Ford, A., Houliston, S., Lemak, A., Carter, L., Ravichandran, R., Mulligan, V. K., Chevalier, A., Arrowsmith, C. H., & Baker, D.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (CA)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Baker, David
Venue
Science
Published
2017-07-14
Volume
357
Issue
6347
Pages
168-175
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2735621019
Cited by
501
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 46 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 66 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 70 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 13
FWCI
18.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (award312333)
  • Life Sciences Research Foundation (award312339)
  • Canada Research Chairs (award312337)
  • Life Sciences Discovery Fund (award312456, 9598385)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Keywords
protein folding, protein stability, de novo protein design, computational protein design, gene synthesis, high-throughput screening, miniproteins, point mutants
MeSH terms
DNA, DNA Mutational Analysis, Mutation, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Protein Engineering, Protein Folding, Protein Stability, Proteolysis

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