Tradeoff between stability and multispecificity in the design of promiscuous proteins
Traditionally, computational protein design efforts have been directed at calculating a single sequence predicted to fold to a particular target structure. Recently, however, a number of conceptual generalizations have been pursued, ranging from the use of backbone flexibility, off-rotamer side chain flexibility, negative design, multi-body potentials, conformational free energy, and prediction of sequence profiles. Below I present our state-of-the-art research whose goal is to understand how protein sequences are optimized to be compatible with binding multiple partners with high affinity. – By Menachem Fromer.
