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Adam Broerman

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Dynamic protein designer @uwproteindesign.bsky.social

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Joanna Slusky @joannas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If deposition becomes the norm in the field so much information will be unlocked.
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Gaurav Bhardwaj @gauravbhardwaj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Super excited to share the latest preprint from our lab on macrocycle binder design! Skeetorial (or whatever they are called) to follow soon. Thanks to all the amazing collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Accurate de novo design of high-affinity protein binding macrocycles using deep learning
The development of macrocyclic binders to therapeutic proteins has typically relied on large-scale screening methods that are resource-intensive and provide little control over binding mode. Despite c...
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
You can read the full preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Design of facilitated dissociation enables control over cytokine signaling duration
Protein design has focused primarily on the design of ground states, ensuring they are sufficiently low energy to be highly populated[1][1]. Designing the kinetics and dynamics of a system requires, i...
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I did forget to link the paper! Here it is www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The nature paper is previous work designing allosteric cooperativity in symmetric oligomers by Arvind Pillai.
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Design of facilitated dissociation enables control over cytokine signaling duration
Protein design has focused primarily on the design of ground states, ensuring they are sufficiently low energy to be highly populated[1][1]. Designing the kinetics and dynamics of a system requires, i...
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This was a massive collaborative effort with @flopraetorius.bsky.social, @mlichtenstein.bsky.social, Christoph @ Piehler lab, Maxx and Mark @ Stoll lab, Harry @ Zuckerman lab, the IPD cores, and all of @uwproteindesign.bsky.social. Huge thanks to all of you!
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Also, if you have ideas for how these switchable cytokines can modulate biological systems in new ways, we would love to discuss/collaborate! We envision these tools could open up a whole new way to explore the biology of transient cytokine signaling.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We suspect that the effector folds upon binding, and that this flexibility is key for rapid conformational transitions against resisting force. If you are interested in collaborating to explore the link between flexibility and force generation in this system, please reach out!
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We are really excited to see the new avenues this will open up! If you have ideas that build upon this work and would like to discuss, please reach out. A few we have in mind:
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Modulating a previously designed cytokine also demonstrates the generality of our approach: by fusing to our switch, almost any binder can be made to rapidly dissociate from its target.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Christoph in Jacob Piehler's lab showed that with this switchable cytokine, adding the effector completely reverses receptor dimerization on the cell surface within 10 seconds and immediately blocks accumulation of phosphoSTAT5.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Finally, the residence time of cytokines stimulating their receptors modulates the downstream response, but native pathways for signal termination are slow, so the duration of signaling is difficult to control. We constructed cytokines which can be disengaged from their receptors far faster.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@mlichtenstein.bsky.social and I also used facilitated dissociation to make biosensors which are just as modular as those built previously with our LOCKR platform, but which respond 70 times faster.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This facilitated dissociation behavior can be used to rapidly switch split enzymes and to rapidly release kinetic traps in chain reactions, which would be potentially useful for constructing kinetically governed protein circuits.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We solved crystal structures of all major equilibrium states of one design, confirming accurate design of these complex multistate proteins. The structure of the strained ternary state(!) shows how the entire complex strains to resolve the designed structural clash.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
By designing the magnitude and direction of the induced strain, we could control the partner dissociation kinetics over a wide range. Notably, simple geometric calculations on the AlphaFold predictions of the strained states predicted the dissociation kinetics with an R² of 0.6.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
With the partner bound, we measured the base rate of conformational switching and found that the rates of effector binding and subsequent partner dissociation surpass this, confirming an induced-fit mechanism for effector association.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Most efficiently accessing this strained state requires that the conformational switch exerts force in a power stroke. To obtain this behavior, we used a flexible effector and designed an open cleft in the unstrained state where the effector can bind to initiate the switch.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We designed an effector-responsive conformational switch which can be attached to almost any binder to sterically modulate binding its partner. Binding the effector induces a strained intermediate state from which partner dissociation is accelerated by up to thousands-fold.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Protein interaction kinetics often affect the dynamic behavior of biological systems. While high affinity interactions are useful, they usually exchange slowly due to their low off-rates. We developed a general strategy for inducing rapid exchange of high affinity interactions.
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Adam Broerman @adambroerman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to join here and announce our new #proteindesign strategy for allosterically controlling the kinetics of protein-protein interactions! Read on for cool applications in cytokine signaling, biosensing, and protein circuits.
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