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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry

Recent advances in de novo protein design: Principles, methods, and applications.

Xingjie Pan, Tanja Kortemme

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Antibody Hotspot-CentricACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2026
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  4. Protein design and RNA design: Perspectives.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2026
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  6. Negative design enables cell-free expression and folding of designed transmembrane β-barrels.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  17. Chemical science · 2025
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  18. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  20. A Complementarity-Based Approach to De Novo Binder Design.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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47 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xingjie PanDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. Electronic address: xingjiepan@gmail.com.
Tanja KortemmeDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. Electronic address: tanjakortemme@gmail.com.

Funding

Computational design of protein-based small-molecule biosensorsR01GM110089 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KORTEMME, TANJA · 2015 to 2022
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM110089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The computational de novo protein design is increasingly applied to address a number of key challenges in biomedicine and biological engineering. Successes in expanding applications are driven by advances in design principles and methods over several decades. Here, we review recent innovations in major aspects of the de novo protein design and include how these advances were informed by principles of protein architecture and interactions derived from the wealth of structures in the Protein Data Bank. We describe developments in de novo generation of designable backbone structures, optimization of sequences, design scoring functions, and the design of the function. The advances not only highlight design goals reachable now but also point to the challenges and opportunities for the future of the field.

Indexed as

Databases, ProteinProtein ConformationProteinsProteinsbiophysicscomputational protein designde novo protein designPDBprotein structureRosetta

Identifiers

PMID33744284
PMCPMC8065224

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