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ArticleNature chemical biology2022

De novo designed peptides for cellular delivery and subcellular localisation.

Guto G Rhys, Jessica A Cross, William M Dawson, Harry F Thompson, Sooruban Shanmugaratnam, Nigel J Savery, Mark P Dodding, Birte Höcker, Derek N Woolfson

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Guto G Rhys *Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0247-9495
Jessica A Cross *School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
William M Dawson *School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2710-6879
Harry F ThompsonSchool of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Sooruban ShanmugaratnamDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2614-6046
Nigel J SaverySchool of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Mark P DoddingSchool of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8091-6534
Birte HöckerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. birte.hoecker@uni-bayreuth.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8250-9462
Derek N WoolfsonSchool of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. d.n.woolfson@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-3202

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L01386X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S000917/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasingly, it is possible to design peptide and protein assemblies de novo from first principles or computationally. This approach provides new routes to functional synthetic polypeptides, including designs to target and bind proteins of interest. Much of this work has been developed in vitro. Therefore, a challenge is to deliver de novo polypeptides efficiently to sites of action within cells. Here we describe the design, characterisation, intracellular delivery, and subcellular localisation of a de novo synthetic peptide system. This system comprises a dual-function basic peptide, programmed both for cell penetration and target binding, and a complementary acidic peptide that can be fused to proteins of interest and introduced into cells using synthetic DNA. The designs are characterised in vitro using biophysical methods and X-ray crystallography. The utility of the system for delivery into mammalian cells and subcellular targeting is demonstrated by marking organelles and actively engaging functional protein complexes.

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OrganellesPeptidesAnimalsCrystallography, X-RayMammalsPeptides

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