title: Design of a 20-amino acid, three-stranded beta-sheet protein.
abstract: A 20-residue protein (named Betanova) forming a monomeric, three-stranded, antiparallel beta sheet was designed using a structural backbone template and an iterative hierarchical approach. Structural and physicochemical characterization show that the beta-sheet conformation is stabilized by specific tertiary interactions and that the protein exhibits a cooperative two-state folding-unfolding transition, which is a hallmark of natural proteins. The Betanova molecule constitutes a tractable model system to aid in the understanding of beta-sheet formation, including beta-sheet aggregation and amyloid fibril formation.
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, Heidelberg D-69117, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kortemme
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Alvarado
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Serrano
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011489:Protein Denaturation; D015202:Protein Engineering; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D012995:Solubility; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; C113273:betanova protein, synthetic