对pH敏感结合剂的计算设计
Green Ahn1,2,3, Brian Coventry1,2,3, Ella Haefner1,2
1Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
|November 19, 2025
概括
科学家们开发了计算方法来设计pH依赖的蛋白质结合剂. 这些结合剂可以被设计为在酸性pH值下减弱或破坏稳定,从而为癌症等疾病提供新的治疗策略.
科学领域:
- 生物化学和分子生物学
- 蛋白质工程是指蛋白质工程.
- 治疗开发的治疗方法
背景情况:
- 生理学pH梯度在生物过程中至关重要,包括囊泡运输和瘤微环境.
- 创建pH依赖结合物的现有方法是经验性的,劳动密集型的,缺乏可预测性.
- 准pH值变化为开发新疗法提供了一个有前途的途径.
研究的目的:
- 为设计pH依赖蛋白质结合剂引入新的计算原理.
- 为了创建可以通过pH调节的结合剂,用于治疗应用.
- 为了证明这些结合剂在降解特定蛋白质标中的有效性.
主要方法:
- 使用两个计算原理设计了pH依赖的结合剂:在接口处的静电排斥和通过埋藏的histidine网络的不稳定.
- 引入了与正电荷相邻的histidine残留物,以削弱低pH时的结合.
- 嵌入埋藏的含有histidine的结网,以在酸性条件下破坏蛋白质结构的稳定.
主要成果:
- 成功设计了在酸性pH值下与多个标分离的结合剂:以林A型受体2,瘤亡因子受体2,白素-6,蛋白转化酶亚素/素类型9和Neo2.
- 通过将设计的结合剂与溶酶体贩运受体融合而制造的催化降解剂.
- 通过使用这些催化降解剂,在substoichiometric水平实现了目标降解.
结论:
- 描述的计算方法为设计pH敏感蛋白疗法提供了一个合理的方法.
- 这些依赖pH的结合剂和催化降解剂在各种生理环境中广泛适用于调节蛋白质活性.
- 这些发现为开发下一代基于蛋白质的疗法铺平了道路,利用pH梯度.
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