化学
组合化学
生物物理学
纳米技术
生物化学
计算生物学
生物
材料科学
作者
Audrey E. Tolbert,Catherine S. Ervin,Leela Ruckthong,Thomas J. Paul,Vindi M. Jayasinghe‐Arachchige,Kosh P. Neupane,Jeanne A. Stuckey,Rajeev Prabhakar,Vincent L. Pecoraro
出处
期刊:Nature Chemistry
[Springer Nature]
日期:2020-03-02
卷期号:12 (4): 405-411
被引量:34
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41557-020-0423-6
摘要
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 coils by combining three distinct characteristics: (1) a cysteine sulfur layer for metal coordination, (2) a thiophilic, trigonal pyramidal metalloid (Pb(II)) that binds to these sulfurs and (3) an adjacent layer of reduced steric bulk generating a cavity where water can hydrogen bond to the cysteine sulfur atoms. Cysteine substitution in an a site yields Pb(II)A2B heterotrimers, while d sites provide pure Pb(II)C2D or Pb(II)CD2 scaffolds. Altering the metal from Pb(II) to Hg(II) or shifting the relative position of the sterically less demanding layer removes heterotrimer specificity. Because only two of the eight or ten hydrophobic layers are perturbed, catalytic sites can be introduced at other regions of the scaffold. A Zn(II)(histidine)3(H2O) centre can be incorporated at a remote location without perturbing the heterotrimer selectivity, suggesting a unique strategy to prepare dissymmetric catalytic sites within self-assembling de novo-designed proteins.
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