title: Design and synthesis of artificial zinc finger proteins.
abstract: Of the DNA-binding motifs, the (Cys)2(His)2-type zinc finger motif has great potential for manipulation. The zinc finger motif offers an attractive framework for the design of novel DNA-binding proteins. Specially, a structure-based design strategy is valuable for the creation of new artificial zinc finger proteins that have novel DNA-binding properties, namely, long-DNA recognition, DNA bending, and AT-rich sequence recognition. Herein, new strategies for the design of multi-zinc finger proteins for the recognition of a target DNA sequence, a DNA-bending zinc finger protein, a (His)4-type zinc finger protein, and an AT-recognizing zinc finger protein are described based on recent experimental results.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugiura
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D015202:Protein Engineering; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D010455:Peptides; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins