Engineering Novel Functional Proteins Grafting Active Sites into Natural Scaffolds

Sheng Wu Hua Xue Yu Sheng Wu Wu Li Xue Bao (Shanghai). 1999;31(3):303-308.

Abstract

Engineering novel small functional proteins by grafting active sites into small but stable proteins is an efficient protein design method. Combining heterogeneous self-consistent ensemble optimization (hetero-SCEO) with 3D-motif search tool, we developed a system to accomplish such method. It is tested by transferring zinc-binding site of carbonic anhydrase form B to charybdotoxin and its efficiency is demonstrated.