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ArticleNature chemistry2021

Predicting the stability of homotrimeric and heterotrimeric collagen helices.

Douglas R Walker, Sarah A H Hulgan, Caroline M Peterson, I-Che Li, Kevin J Gonzalez, Jeffrey D Hartgerink

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. De Novo Design of Specific Heterotrimeric Collagen-Like Peptides via Genetic Algorithm.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  16. Hollow Octadecameric Self-Assembly of Collagen-like Peptides.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Douglas R WalkerDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9323-3158
Sarah A H HulganDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Caroline M PetersonDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
I-Che LiDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-8094
Kevin J GonzalezDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4904-590X
Jeffrey D HartgerinkDepartment of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. jdh@rice.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3186-5395
Rice University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Robust methods for predicting thermal stabilities of collagen triple helices are critical for understanding natural structure and stability in the collagen family of proteins and also for designing synthetic peptides mimicking these essential proteins. In this work, we determine the relative stability imparted on the collagen triple helix by single amino acids and interactions between amino acid pairs. Using this analysis, we create a comprehensive algorithm, SCEPTTr, for predicting melting temperatures of synthetic triple helices. Critically, our algorithm is compatible with every natural amino acid, can evaluate both homotrimers and heterotrimers, and accounts for all possible helix compositions and registers, including non-canonically staggered helices. We test and optimize our algorithm against 431 published collagen triple helices to demonstrate the quality of our predictive system. Finally, we use this algorithm to successfully guide the design of an ABC heterotrimer possessing high assembly specificity.

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AlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceCollagenNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein MultimerizationProtein StabilityTransition TemperatureCollagen

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PMID33589786
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