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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

High-Throughput De Novo Protein Design Yields Novel Immunomodulatory Agonists.

Mohamad Abedi, Marc Expòsit, Brian Coventry, Divij Mathew, Shruti Jain, Aditya Krishnakumar, Inna Goreshnik, Sophie L Gray-Gaillard, Margaret Lunn-Halbert, Ta-Yi Yu and 7 more

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Mohamad AbediDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9717-6288
Marc ExpòsitDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2980-303X
Brian CoventryDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6910-6255
Divij MathewDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8323-7358
Shruti JainDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Aditya KrishnakumarDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3461-0133
Inna GoreshnikDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9254-9249
Sophie L Gray-GaillardDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4884-5956
Margaret Lunn-HalbertDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0527-5575
Ta-Yi YuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Matthias GlöglDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7011-8184
Uma MitchellDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Riya KeshriDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7708-6402
Jung Ho ChunDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4778-4175
Hannele Ruohola-BakerDepartment of Oral Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5588-4531
E John WherryDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0477-1956
David BakerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7896-6217

Funding

TARGETING ROR1 WITH CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR MODIFIED T CELLSR01CA114536 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Sylvain Simon · 2005 to 2026
$8.4M
Design of de novo interleukin mimics for targeted immunotherapyR01CA240339 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BAKER, DAVID · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA114536NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240339
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines regulate cell behavior by bringing together specific receptor subunits to trigger downstream signaling. Designed molecules that bring together non-natural receptor pairs could have novel signaling responses and cell specificities. We present a high-throughput de-novo design approach to create novel cytokines by generating and fusing pairs of computationally designed binders. By combining 33 designed receptor-binding domains, we generated over a thousand potential de novo designed "Novokines", of which 75 activated pSTAT signaling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. We characterized 18 of these, including new pairings of established common receptors, cross-family pairings such as TrkA-γcommon, and a series of pairings with interferon receptor-1 (IFNAR1), revealing that IFNAR1 can function as a versatile common receptor similar to γcommon or βcommon. We identify novokines that drive monocyte proliferation, T cell survival and CD4

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Cell SignalingComputational Protein DesignCytokineSynthetic Biology

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PMCPMC12632978

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