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ArticleACS nano2024

Engineering the Mechanical Stability of a Therapeutic Complex between Affibody and Programmed Death-Ligand 1 by Anchor Point Selection.

Byeongseon Yang, Diego E B Gomes, Zhaowei Liu, Mariana Sá Santos, Jiajun Li, Rafael C Bernardi, Michael A Nash

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Article in ACS nano, 2024. 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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  1. Evolution of N-terminal mechanical lability as a determinant for Type III secretion.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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Byeongseon YangInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0660-5193
Diego E B GomesDepartment of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4855-040X
Zhaowei LiuInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8214-8882
Mariana Sá SantosInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Jiajun LiInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Rafael C BernardiDepartment of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0758-2026
Michael A NashInstitute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3842-1567

Funding

Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and VisualizationR24GM145965 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Emad Tajkhorshid · 2022 to 2026
$6.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R24 GM145965
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-protein complexes can vary in mechanical stability depending on the direction from which force is applied. Here, we investigated the mechanical stability of a complex between a binding scaffold called Affibody and an immune checkpoint protein Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1). We used AFM single-molecule force spectroscopy with bioorthogonal clickable peptide handles, shear stress bead adhesion assays, molecular modeling, and steered molecular dynamics (SMD) to understand the pulling point dependency of the mechanostability of the Affibody:(PD-L1) complex. We observed a wide range of rupture forces depending on the anchor point. Pulling from residue #22 on Affibody generated an intermediate state attributed to partially unfolded PD-L1, while pulling from Affibody's N-terminus generated a force-activated catch bond. Pulling from residue #22 or #47 on Affibody generated high rupture forces, with the complex breaking at up to ∼190 pN under loading rates of ∼10

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B7-H1 AntigenMolecular Dynamics SimulationHumansMicroscopy, Atomic ForceProtein BindingProtein EngineeringB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, humanatomic force microscopybiophysicsimmobilizationmolecular dynamicsmolecular recognitionprotein engineering

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