J
2024
FireProt 2.0: web-based platform for the fully automated design of thermostable proteins
MUSIL, Miloš; Andrej JEZIK; Jana HORÁČKOVÁ; Simeon BORKO; Petr KABOUREK et al.
Basic information
Original name
FireProt 2.0: web-based platform for the fully automated design of thermostable proteins
Authors
MUSIL, Miloš; Andrej JEZIK; Jana HORÁČKOVÁ; Simeon BORKO; Petr KABOUREK; Jiří DAMBORSKÝ and David BEDNÁŘ
Edition
Briefings in Bioinformatics, OXFORD, Oxford University Press, 2024, 1467-5463
Other information
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Marked to be transferred to RIV
Yes
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/24:00135295
Organization
Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
ancestral; back-to-consensus; B-factor; epistasis; evolution; force-field; multiple-point mutant; protein engineering; saturation mutagenesis; thermostability
Links
EF17_043/0009632, research and development project. LM2018140, research and development project. LM2023055, research and development project. LM2023069, research and development project. LX22NPO5107, research and development project. 857560, interní kód Repo.
In the original language
Thermostable proteins find their use in numerous biomedical and biotechnological applications. However, the computational design of stable proteins often results in single-point mutations with a limited effect on protein stability. However, the construction of stable multiple-point mutants can prove difficult due to the possibility of antagonistic effects between individual mutations. FireProt protocol enables the automated computational design of highly stable multiple-point mutants. FireProt 2.0 builds on top of the previously published FireProt web, retaining the original functionality and expanding it with several new stabilization strategies. FireProt 2.0 integrates the AlphaFold database and the homology modeling for structure prediction, enabling calculations starting from a sequence. Multiple-point designs are constructed using the Bron–Kerbosch algorithm minimizing the antagonistic effect between the individual mutations. Users can newly limit the FireProt calculation to a set of user-defined mutations, run a saturation mutagenesis of the whole protein or select rigidifying mutations based on B-factors. Evolution-based back-to-consensus strategy is complemented by ancestral sequence reconstruction. FireProt 2.0 is significantly faster and a reworked graphical user interface broadens the tool’s availability even to users with older hardware. FireProt 2.0 is freely available at http://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/fireprotweb.
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