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Asymmetry in Binding and Cleavage Specificities Found for Homing Endonuclease I- Ani I. k cat. K M. Asymmetry in k cat and K M. Specificity Shifts for Designed Enzymes Modulating k cat or K M. -8G:C. +8C:G. Current Projects. Design and selection toward target site
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Asymmetry in Binding and Cleavage Specificities Found for Homing Endonuclease I-AniI kcat KM
Specificity Shifts for Designed Enzymes Modulating kcat or KM -8G:C +8C:G
Current Projects • Design and selection toward target site • Built-in negative Selection System • Homologues and their target sites • Second shell effects (learning from homologues) WT site:TGAGGAGGTTTCTCTGTAAA FANCA_32:TTAGCAGCTCCCTCTGTCTC
ArshiyaQuadri Benchmarking Selection System M5 (with and without I55V) survives with a single-target site, so used in all selections
Built-in negative selection bla p15A origin pENDO-HE HE ORF Unwanted HE target sites araC pBAD promoter (arabinose inducible)
ArshiyaQuadri Results of Negative Selection Benchmark: Recovery of -8G and +8C highly specific designs in this selection -> putting design directly in (works) and using a randomized library to try and recover them (going to sequencing). Using this selection in combination with other selection for -9T and for improving single-base pair designs.
Second shell effects and homologues • Current endonuclease design is generally limited to target DNAs close to the sequence observed in crystal structures • Redesign of the overall curvature of LAGLIDADG endonucleases to expand the range of targets to DNA sequences assuming different conformations • Influence of second shell effects (core especially) • Vdi and Mso - Fabio • Onu and Ani and other uncharacterized homologues - Summer • Computational: analyzing homologues sequences and incorporating information into designs (Justin and Fabio) • Experimental: transplanting residues and selection (Summer and Fabio) • Identifying homologue target sites is not trivial • New method: using the selection system to identify the target sites
Flexible-backbone design and second-shell mutations (justin) i.e. how to make Rosetta stabilize new backbones in a realistic and conservative fashion designed I-MsoI, -11 THY, -10 THY wildtype I-MsoI, wildtype -11 CYT, -10 ADE superposition “ccd” backbone design w/ 2nd shell mutations, with BLOSUM62 constraints because Rosetta over-mutates multistate design of DNA contacts only, for specificity The protocol that generated this result was: iterative