Protein Design Automation for Protein Libraries

a protein library and protein technology, applied in the field of computational methods, can solve the problems of inability to produce more than a tiny fraction of potential changes, all handicapped, and inability to mutagenesis and functional screening so many mutants

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-07-10
XENCOR INC
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These techniques have had many successes; however, they are all handicapped by their inability to produce more than a tiny fraction of the potential changes.
Clearly, the mutagenesis and functional screening of so many mutants is impossible; directed evolution provides a very sparse sampling of the possible sequences and hence examines only a small portion of possible improved proteins, typically point mutants or recombinations of existing sequences.
By sampling randomly from the vast number of possible sequences, directed evolution is unbiased and broadly applicable, but inherently inefficient because it ignores all structural and biophysical knowledge of proteins.

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Computational Prescreening on β-lactamase TEM-1

[0254]Preliminary experiments were performed on the β-lactamase gene TEM-1. Brookhaven Protein Data Bank entry 1BTL was used as the starting structure. All water molecules and the SO42− group were removed and explicit hydrogens were generated on the structure. The structure was then minimized for 50 steps without electrostatics using the conjugate gradient method and the Dreiding II force field. These steps were performed using the BIOGRAF program (Molecular Simulations, Inc., San Diego, Calif.). This minimized structure served as the template for all the protein design calculations.

[0255]Computational Pre-Screening

[0256]Computational pre-screening of sequences was performed using PDA. A 4 Å sphere was drawn around the heavy side chain atoms of the four catalytic residues (S70, K73, S130, and E166) and all amino acids having heavy side chain atoms within this distance cutoff were selected. This yielded the following 7 positions: F72, Y1...

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Secondary Library Generation of a Xylanase

[0284]PDA Pre-screening Leads to Enormous Reduction in Number of Possible Sequences

[0285]To demonstrate that computational pre-screening is feasible and will lead to a significant reduction in the number of sequences that have to be experimentally screened, initial calculations for the B. circulans xylanase with and without the substrate were performed. The PDB structure 1XNB of B. circulans xylanase and 1BCX for the enzyme substrate complex were used. 27 residues inside the binding site were visually identified as belonging to the active site. 8 of these residues were regarded as absolutely essential for the enzymatic activity. These positions were treated as wild type residues, which means that their conformation was allowed to change but not their amino acid identity (see FIG. 2).

[0286]Three of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids were not considered (cysteine, proline, and glycine). Therefore, 17 different amino acids were still possib...

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Abstract

The invention relates to the use of protein design automation (PDA) to generate computationally prescreened secondary libraries of proteins, and to methods and compositions utilizing the libraries.

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[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 782,004, filed on Feb. 12, 2001, which claims the benefit of the filing date of Ser. Nos. 60 / 181,630, filed on Feb. 10, 2000; 60 / 186,904, filed on Mar. 3, 2000; and, 60 / 197,851, filed on Apr. 14, 2000, and is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 09 / 419,351, filed on Oct. 15, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,403,312, which claims the benefit of the filing date of Ser. Nos. 60 / 158,700, filed Oct. 8, 1999 and 60 / 104,612, filed Oct. 16, 1998, all of which are included by reference herein in their entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The invention relates to the use of a variety of computation methods, including protein design automation (PDA), to generate computationally prescreened secondary libraries of proteins, and to methods of making and methods and compositions utilizing the libraries.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Directed molecular evolution can be used to create proteins and enzymes with novel functions...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C40B10/00C07K1/04C07K1/06C12N9/42C12N9/86C12N15/10C40B30/04G01N33/68G06F19/00G16B15/20G16B15/30G16B40/30
CPCB01J2219/007C07K1/047C07K1/063C12N9/86C12N15/102C12N15/1027C12Y305/02006C12N15/1089C40B30/04G01N33/6845G06F19/16G06F19/24C12N15/1044G16B15/00G16B40/00G16B40/30G16B15/20G16B15/30
Inventor DAHIYAT, BASSIL I.HAYES, ROBERT J.BENTZIEN, JORGFIEBIG, KLAUS M.
Owner XENCOR INC
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