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Protein WISDOM: A Workbench for In silico De novo Design of BioMolecules
Published on: July 25, 2013
Step-by-step design of proteins for small molecule interaction: A review on recent milestones
José M Pereira1, Maria Vieira1, Sérgio M Santos1
1CICECO & Departamento de Química, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Abstract:
Protein design is the field of synthetic biology that aims at developing de novo custom-made proteins and peptides for specific applications. Despite exploring an ambitious goal, recent computational advances in both hardware and software technologies have paved the way to high-throughput screening and detailed design of novel folds and improved functionalities. Modern advances in the field of protein design for small molecule targeting are described in this review, organized in a step-by-step fashion: from the conception of a new or upgraded active binding site, to scaffold design, sequence optimization, and experimental expression of the custom protein. In each step, contemporary examples are described, and state-of-the-art software is briefly explored.
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