A five-residue motif for the design of domain swapping in proteins

Designing interfaces that can induce protein-protein interactions is a challenging problem. Here the authors show that a five amino acid sequence known to mediate domain swapping in cystatins can drive oligomerization when grafted onto functionally and structurally unrelated host proteins, providing...

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Main Authors: Neha Nandwani, Parag Surana, Hitendra Negi, Nahren M. Mascarenhas, Jayant B. Udgaonkar, Ranabir Das, Shachi Gosavi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08295-x