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Engineering extrinsic disorder to control protein activity in living cells

2016; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 354; Issue: 6318 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.aah3404

1095-9203

Onur Dağliyan, Mirosław Tarnawski, Pei-Hsuan Chu, David Shirvanyants, Ilme Schlichting, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Klaus M. Hahn,

Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

Optogenetic and chemogenetic control of proteins has revealed otherwise inaccessible facets of signaling dynamics. Here, we use light- or ligand-sensitive domains to modulate the structural disorder of diverse proteins, thereby generating robust allosteric switches. Sensory domains were inserted into nonconserved, surface-exposed loops that were tight and identified computationally as allosterically coupled to active sites. Allosteric switches introduced into motility signaling proteins (kinases, guanosine triphosphatases, and guanine exchange factors) controlled conversion between conformations closely resembling natural active and inactive states, as well as modulated the morphodynamics of living cells. Our results illustrate a broadly applicable approach to design physiological protein switches.