De novo design of a macrocycle induced dimerization system for cellular control
Baker, D.; Hanna, S.; Salveson, P.; Wicky, B.; Kennedy, M.; Hicks, D.; Moller, C.; Cheng, S.; Li, X.; Abedi, M.; Coventry, B.; Said, M.; Bera, A. K.; Kang, A.; Stoddard, B. L.
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Investigating and manipulating cellular events requires precise control of protein function. To enable control over cellular processes, we set out to design a chemically induced dimerization (CID) system consisting of a de novo designed ligand and protein pair. Here we describe the design of a C2 symmetric membrane permeable macrocyclic peptide and a cognate protein homodimer which binds the macrocycle through a large interface with both chains. The designed homodimer binds the macrocycle with a KD of 36 nM, and the x-ray crystal structure of the protein homodimer-macrocycle complex is very close to the computational design model, with the C2 axis of the macrocycle aligned with the homodimer C2 axis. Transcriptional and split luciferase assays in mammalian cells demonstrates conditional control over both a reporter gene expression and luciferase reconstitution.
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