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Recognition and reprogramming of E3 ubiquitin ligase surfaces by α-helical peptides | Nature Communications

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Identification of molecules that induce novel interactions between proteins has been limited by the complexity of rationally designing interactions. The authors report a method to discover molecular glue-like “trimerizers” based on α-helically constrained peptides that can co-opt the surfaces of E3 ubiquitin ligases to bind therapeutically important proteins.

Download PDF Subjects Chemical tools Enzymes High-throughput screening X-ray crystallography Abstract Molecules that induce novel interactions between proteins hold great promise for the study of biological systems and the development of therapeutics, but their discovery has been limited by the complexities of rationally designing interactions between three components, and because known binders to each protein are typically required to inform initial designs. Here, we report a general and rapid method for discovering α-helically constrained (Helicon) polypeptides that cooperatively induce the

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