Directed self-assembly of trimeric DNA-bindingchiral miniprotein helicates
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We propose that peptides are highly versatile platforms for the precise design of supramolecular metal architectures, and particularly, for the controlled assembly of helicates. In this context, we show that the bacteriophage T4 Fibritin foldon (T4Ff) can been engineered on its N-terminus with metal-chelating 2,2′-bipyridine units that stereoselectively assemble in the presence of Fe(II) into parallel, three-stranded peptide helicates with preferred helical orientation. Modeling studies support the proposed self-assembly and the stability of the final helicate. Furthermore, we show that these designed mini-metalloproteins selectively recognize three-way DNA junctions over double-stranded DNA
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Gómez-González J, Peña DG, Barka G, Sciortino G, Maréchal J-D, Vázquez López M and Vázquez ME (2018) Directed Self-Assembly of Trimeric DNA-Bindingchiral Miniprotein Helicates. Front. Chem. 6:520. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00520
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Financial support from the Spanish grants CTQ2015-70698-R, CTQ2017-87889-P, the Xunta de Galicia (Centro singular de investigación de Galicia accreditation 2016–2019, ED431G/09) and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund - ERDF), is gratefully acknowledged. JG-G, thanks the Spanish MINECO for his FPI fellowship, GB thanks the ERC for her EU METALIC-II 2013-2442/001-001-EMA2 mobility scheme fellowship, and GS. thanks the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona for its support to his PhD. J-DM and GS are thankful for the support given by the Generalitat de Catalunya 2017SGR1323. Support of COST Action CM1306 is kindly acknowledged. MEV, also wish to acknowledge the generous support by the Fundación Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer AECC (IDEAS197VAZQ grant)
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Copyright © 2018 Gómez-González, Peña, Barka, Sciortino, Maréchal, Vázquez López and Vázquez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms