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Area of Science:

  • Synthetic chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Materials science

Background:

  • Foldamers are synthetic oligomers with artificial covalent structures, offering biostable scaffolds for diverse applications.
  • Recreating complex, protein-like tertiary folding patterns in foldamers presents a significant design challenge.
  • Understanding protein structure involves recognizing two orthogonal sequences: side-chain functional groups and backbone units.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop design principles for heterogeneous-backbone foldamers that mimic complex protein tertiary folds.
  • To leverage the concept of protein sequence duality in foldamer design.
  • To explore the use of diverse artificial building blocks in foldamer construction.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing heterogeneous-backbone foldamers by blending natural alpha-amino acid residues with artificial-backbone monomers.
  • Replacing a fraction of natural alpha-residues with artificial variants (e.g., d-alpha, Cα-Me-alpha, N-Me-alpha, beta, gamma, delta residues, polymer segments).
  • Analyzing high-resolution structures of backbone-modified proteins to understand moiety accommodation in tertiary folds.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that replacing natural residues with artificial-backbone variants can retain or enhance fold and function.
  • Identified design principles for selecting substitutions based on secondary structure and side-chain retention.
  • Elucidated how backbone alteration impacts folding thermodynamics, informing improved design rules.

Conclusions:

  • Protein sequence duality provides a framework for designing foldamers with complex tertiary structures.
  • Backbone alteration is a versatile strategy for generating foldamers with sequence-encoded tertiary folds.
  • Significant plasticity exists in backbone structures for manifesting sequence-encoded tertiary folds.