title: Computational design of a PAK1 binding protein.
abstract: We describe a computational protocol, called DDMI, for redesigning scaffold proteins to bind to a specified region on a target protein. The DDMI protocol is implemented within the Rosetta molecular modeling program and uses rigid-body docking, sequence design, and gradient-based minimization of backbone and side-chain torsion angles to design low-energy interfaces between the scaffold and target protein. Iterative rounds of sequence design and conformational optimization were needed to produce models that have calculated binding energies that are similar to binding energies calculated for native complexes. We also show that additional conformation sampling with molecular dynamics can be iterated with sequence design to further lower the computed energy of the designed complexes. To experimentally test the DDMI protocol, we redesigned the human hyperplastic discs protein to bind to the kinase domain of p21-activated kinase 1 (PAK1). Six designs were experimentally characterized. Two of the designs aggregated and were not characterized further. Of the remaining four designs, three bound to the PAK1 with affinities tighter than 350 muM. The tightest binding design, named Spider Roll, bound with an affinity of 100 muM. NMR-based structure prediction of Spider Roll based on backbone and (13)C(beta) chemical shifts using the program CS-ROSETTA indicated that the architecture of human hyperplastic discs protein is preserved. Mutagenesis studies confirmed that Spider Roll binds the target patch on PAK1. Additionally, Spider Roll binds to full-length PAK1 in its activated state but does not bind PAK1 when it forms an auto-inhibited conformation that blocks the Spider Roll target site. Subsequent NMR characterization of the binding of Spider Roll to PAK1 revealed a comparably small binding 'on-rate' constant (<<10(5) M(-1) s(-1)). The ability to rationally design the site of novel protein-protein interactions is an important step towards creating new proteins that are useful as therapeutics or molecular probes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA.
authors.forename: Ramesh K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Jha
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leaver-Fay
authors.forename: Shuangye
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Yibing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Glenn L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Butterfoss
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Szyperski
authors.forename: Nikolay V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Dokholyan
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kuhlman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D054462:p21-Activated Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D054462:p21-Activated Kinases
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