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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2020

Identification and Analysis of Natural Building Blocks for Evolution-Guided Fragment-Based Protein Design.

Noelia Ferruz, Francisco Lobos, Dominik Lemm, Saacnicteh Toledo-Patino, José Arcadio Farías-Rico, Steffen Schmidt, Birte Höcker

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Structural dynamics in the evolution of a bilobed protein scaffold.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  18. Evolution, folding, and design of TIM barrels and related proteins.Current opinion in structural biology · 2021
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  20. Fuzzle 2.0: Ligand Binding in Natural Protein Building Blocks.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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7 authors.

Noelia FerruzDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Francisco LobosDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
Dominik LemmDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Saacnicteh Toledo-PatinoDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
José Arcadio Farías-RicoMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
Steffen SchmidtMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany; Computational Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. Electronic address: steffen.schmidt@uni-bayreuth.de.
Birte HöckerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: birte.hoecker@uni-bayreuth.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural evolution has generated an impressively diverse protein universe via duplication and recombination from a set of protein fragments that served as building blocks. The application of these concepts to the design of new proteins using subdomain-sized fragments from different folds has proven to be experimentally successful. To better understand how evolution has shaped our protein universe, we performed an all-against-all comparison of protein domains representing all naturally existing folds and identified conserved homologous protein fragments. Overall, we found more than 1000 protein fragments of various lengths among different folds through similarity network analysis. These fragments are present in very different protein environments and represent versatile building blocks for protein design. These data are available in our web server called F(old P)uzzle (fuzzle.uni-bayreuth.de), which allows to individually filter the dataset and create customized networks for folds of interest. We believe that our results serve as an invaluable resource for structural and evolutionary biologists and as raw material for the design of custom-made proteins.

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Evolution, MolecularProtein FoldingComputational BiologyInternetModels, MolecularProtein DomainsProtein EngineeringProteinsSequence Homology, Amino AcidSoftwareProteinsevolutionprotein designprotein fragmentsprotein recombination

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PMCPMC7322520

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