A brief history of de novo protein design: minimal, rational, and computational

DN Woolfson - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein design has come of age, but how will it mature? In the 1980s and the 1990s, the
primary motivation for de novo protein design was to test our understanding of the …

De novo metalloprotein design

MJ Chalkley, SI Mann, WF DeGrado - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Natural metalloproteins perform many functions—ranging from sensing to electron transfer
and catalysis—in which the position and property of each ligand and metal are dictated by …

De novo protein design, a retrospective

IV Korendovych, WF DeGrado - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Proteins are molecular machines whose function depends on their ability to achieve
complex folds with precisely defined structural and dynamic properties. The rational design …

Random heteropolymers preserve protein function in foreign environments

B Panganiban, B Qiao, T Jiang, C DelRe, MM Obadia… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The successful incorporation of active proteins into synthetic polymers could lead to a new
class of materials with functions found only in living systems. However, proteins rarely …

Sparks of function by de novo protein design

AE Chu, T Lu, PS Huang - Nature biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Information in proteins flows from sequence to structure to function, with each step
causally driven by the preceding one. Protein design is founded on inverting this process …

Protein design: toward functional metalloenzymes

F Yu, VM Cangelosi, ML Zastrow, M Tegoni… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Protein design is a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental factors that dictate
protein structure and function. The field of protein design has seen significant progress over …

A field guide to foldamers

DJ Hill, MJ Mio, RB Prince, TS Hughes… - Chemical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
The breadth of structure and function displayed by the molecules of biology is remarkable.
Considering that there are only three major biopolymer backbones (proteins, ribonucleic …

The cluster glycoside effect

JJ Lundquist, EJ Toone - Chemical reviews, 2002 - ACS Publications
Myriad biological communication events achieve the requisite level of specificity by
exploiting the rich structural and functional diversity of glycoconjugates. Although a wide …

β-Peptides: from structure to function

RP Cheng, SH Gellman, WF DeGrado - Chemical reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
In recent years, our understanding of protein structure and function has advanced rapidly,
providing a mechanistic understanding of a wide variety of biological processes. As an …

Prediction of protein stability changes for single‐site mutations using support vector machines

J Cheng, A Randall, P Baldi - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate prediction of protein stability changes resulting from single amino acid mutations is
important for understanding protein structures and designing new proteins. We use support …