title: Coupling backbone flexibility and amino acid sequence selection in protein design.
abstract: Using a protein design algorithm that considers side-chain packing quantitatively, the effect of explicit backbone motion on the selection of amino acids in protein design was assessed in the core of the streptococcal protein G beta 1 domain (G beta 1). Concerted backbone motion was introduced by varying G beta 1's supersecondary structure parameter values. The stability and structural flexibility of seven of the redesigned proteins were determined experimentally and showed that core variants containing as many as 6 of 10 possible mutations retain native-like properties. This result demonstrates that backbone flexibility can be combined explicitly with amino acid side-chain selection and that the selection algorithm is sufficiently robust to tolerate perturbations as large as 15% of G beta 1's native supersecondary structure parameter values.
authors.affiliation: Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Mayo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D016296:Mutagenesis; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins