The coming of age of de novo protein design

PS Huang, SE Boyken, D Baker - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
There are 20200 possible amino-acid sequences for a 200-residue protein, of which the
natural evolutionary process has sampled only an infinitesimal subset. De novo protein …

Antiviral peptides as promising therapeutic drugs

LCP Vilas Boas, ML Campos, RLA Berlanda… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
While scientific advances have led to large-scale production and widespread distribution of
vaccines and antiviral drugs, viruses still remain a major cause of human diseases today …

De novo design of potent and resilient hACE2 decoys to neutralize SARS-CoV-2

TW Linsky, R Vergara, N Codina, JW Nelson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
We developed a de novo protein design strategy to swiftly engineer decoys for neutralizing
pathogens that exploit extracellular host proteins to infect the cell. Our pipeline allowed the …

Massively parallel de novo protein design for targeted therapeutics

A Chevalier, DA Silva, GJ Rocklin, DR Hicks… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
De novo protein design holds promise for creating small stable proteins with shapes
customized to bind therapeutic targets. We describe a massively parallel approach for …

Protein design via deep learning

W Ding, K Nakai, H Gong - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Proteins with desired functions and properties are important in fields like nanotechnology
and biomedicine. De novo protein design enables the production of previously unseen …

Structure and function analysis of an antibody recognizing all influenza A subtypes

NL Kallewaard, D Corti, PJ Collins, U Neu… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Influenza virus remains a threat because of its ability to evade vaccine-induced immune
responses due to antigenic drift. Here, we describe the isolation, evolution, and structure of a …

De novo protein design by inversion of the AlphaFold structure prediction network

CA Goverde, B Wolf, H Khakzad, S Rosset… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
De novo protein design enhances our understanding of the principles that govern protein
folding and interactions, and has the potential to revolutionize biotechnology through the …

Potent peptidic fusion inhibitors of influenza virus

RU Kadam, J Juraszek, B Brandenburg, C Buyck… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Influenza therapeutics with new targets and mechanisms of action are urgently needed to
combat potential pandemics, emerging viruses, and constantly mutating strains in …

A small-molecule fusion inhibitor of influenza virus is orally active in mice

MJP van Dongen, RU Kadam, J Juraszek, E Lawson… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Annual influenza epidemics and episodic pandemics continue to cause
widespread illness and mortality. Strategies to prevent and treat acute influenza infection …

An amphibian host defense peptide is virucidal for human H1 hemagglutinin-bearing influenza viruses

DJ Holthausen, SH Lee, VTV Kumar, NM Bouvier… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Although vaccines confer protection against influenza A viruses, antiviral treatment becomes
the first line of defense during pandemics because there is insufficient time to produce …