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ArticleNature chemical biology2023

Designer installation of a substrate recruitment domain to tailor enzyme specificity.

Rodney Park, Chayanid Ongpipattanakul, Satish K Nair, Albert A Bowers, Brian Kuhlman

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. LICEDB: light industrial core enzyme database for industrial applications and AI enzyme design.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2025
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  5. Peptides hit the catalysis walk.Nature chemical biology · 2023
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  6. There's more to enzyme antagonism than inhibition.Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rodney ParkDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3824-3916
Chayanid OngpipattanakulDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Satish K NairDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1790-1334
Albert A BowersDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. abower2@email.unc.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8214-7484
Brian KuhlmanDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. bkuhlman@email.unc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4907-9699

Funding

Virology Research Program (Program 4)P30CA016086 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI David Darr · 1985 to 2026
$201.5M
GPU workstation for deep learning-based protein design and cryo-EM data processingR35GM131923 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BRIAN A KUHLMAN · 2019 to 2026
$6.1M
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008570 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KUHLMAN, BRIAN A, SLEP, KEVIN C · 1995 to 2022
$5.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016086NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131923NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008570
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Promiscuous enzymes that modify peptides and proteins are powerful tools for labeling biomolecules; however, directing these modifications to desired substrates can be challenging. Here, we use computational interface design to install a substrate recognition domain adjacent to the active site of a promiscuous enzyme, catechol O-methyltransferase. This design approach effectively decouples substrate recognition from the site of catalysis and promotes modification of peptides recognized by the recruitment domain. We determined the crystal structure of this novel multidomain enzyme, SH3-588, which shows that it closely matches our design. SH3-588 methylates directed peptides with catalytic efficiencies exceeding the wild-type enzyme by over 1,000-fold, whereas peptides lacking the directing recognition sequence do not display enhanced efficiencies. In competition experiments, the designer enzyme preferentially modifies directed substrates over undirected substrates, suggesting that we can use designed recruitment domains to direct post-translational modifications to specific sequence motifs on target proteins in complex multisubstrate environments.

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PeptidesProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalCatalysisCatalytic DomainSubstrate SpecificityPeptides

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PMID36509904
PMCPMC10065947

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