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ArticleCell chemical biology2022

Engineered protein-small molecule conjugates empower selective enzyme inhibition.

Andrew K Lewis, Abbigael Harthorn, Sadie M Johnson, Roy R Lobb, Benjamin J Hackel

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Article in Cell chemical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew K LewisDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Abbigael HarthornDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Sadie M JohnsonDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Roy R LobbItara Biotherapeutics, London NW1 2ND, UK.
Benjamin J HackelDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: hackel@umn.edu.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Engineering synthetic ligands with potent allosteric inhibition of tumornecrosis factor receptorsR01EB028274 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI HACKEL, BENJAMIN, SACHS, JONATHAN N · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
Engineering Gp2 as a small ligand scaffoldR01EB023339 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI HACKEL, BENJAMIN · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023339NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB028274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Potent, specific ligands drive precision medicine and fundamental biology. Proteins, peptides, and small molecules constitute effective ligand classes. Yet greater molecular diversity would aid the pursuit of ligands to elicit precise biological activity against challenging targets. We demonstrate a platform to discover protein-small molecule (PriSM) hybrids to combine unique pharmacophore activities and shapes with constrained, efficiently engineerable proteins. In this platform, a fibronectin protein library is displayed on yeast with a single cysteine coupled to acetazolamide via a maleimide-poly(ethylene glycol) linker. Magnetic and flow cytometric sorts enrich specific binders to carbonic anhydrase isoforms. Isolated PriSMs exhibit potent, specific inhibition of carbonic anhydrase isoforms with efficacy superior to that of acetazolamide or protein alone, including an 80-fold specificity increase and 9-fold potency gain. PriSMs are engineered with multiple linker lengths, protein conjugation sites, and sequences against two different isoforms, which reveal platform flexibility and impacts of molecular designs. PriSMs advance the molecular diversity of efficiently engineerable ligands.

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Protein EngineeringCarbonic Anhydrase InhibitorsCarbonic AnhydrasesFibronectinsHumansIsoenzymesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSmall Molecule LibrariesCarbonic Anhydrase InhibitorsCarbonic AnhydrasesFibronectinsIsoenzymesSmall Molecule Librarieshybridligandpharmacophoreprotein engineeringprotein scaffoldyeast display

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PMID34363759
PMCPMC8807807
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