Methods 14, 331332 (2017). Mean values for n=2 experiments. Bioinformatics 31, 926932 (2014). Lyu, J. et al. 3, Supplementary Fig. Notably, K27 from the N-terminal LH of METTL3 is crosslinked with K230 from H4 of WTAP, suggesting that the extra density near H4 of WTAP may be LH of METTL3 (Fig. Cite this article. Molecular mechanisms of opioid receptor-dependent signaling and behavior. We tested the durability of the fluorescence in 6M GdnHCl and found that LSSmGFP (and mGL) lost substantial fluorescence after overnight refrigeration in denaturing solution, whereas hfYFPs fluorescence remained stable (Extended Data Fig. Molecular insights into the biased signaling mechanism of the mu-opioid receptor. After the agarose solidified, it was cut using a scalpel into squares and submerged in a 1% (w/v) solution of OsO4 for 1h at RT. et al. Neither of these interactions is present in the PDB ligand. Protein Sci. J. Cheminformatics 9, 38 (2017). Methods 13, 557562 (2016). PubMed FPs were diluted to 0.1M final concentration in solutions of GdnHCl or GdnSCN in TNG buffer, pH 7.5, except that dithiothreitol was omitted in this experiment. 3d): W145, F147 in L2 and L142 in H2 form a hydrophobic ring around W145 from H2 coordinating with K155 in H3; the benzene ring of F147 engages in stacking with P149 in L2 while binding to the hydrophobic patch formed by L157 and M158 in H3 and L157 in H3. 2D and Supplementary Figs. The presence of arabinose enhances the FRET signal from the CFP and YFP fluorophores linked by an arabinose binding protein (AraF) in the plasmid. Our results demonstrate that a design algorithm guided by an entirely learned neural network potential can generate viable sequences for a fixed-backbone structure, generalizing to unseen topologies and de novo backbones. Or can small be beautiful? M.G.P.-S., L.L.L. 2ac, 5a; Supplementary informaiton,VideoS1). We implemented an experimental approach based on isolated nuclei carrying engineered cleavable RAD21 proteins to precisely control cohesin ring integrity so that its role in chromatin looping could be studied under defined experimental conditions. Gassler, J. et al. (a) Western blot analysis of RAD21 and cohesin components treated with TEV in specified buffer as shown. The model produces novel sequences, and the high-resolution crystal structures of two designs show excellent agreement with in silico models. Jacobs, M. et al. It is composed of two copies of positive-sense single-stranded RNA that codes for the virus's nine genes enclosed by a conical capsid composed of 2,000 copies of the viral protein p24. Commun. Have questions about your order, deposit, or a plasmid? After binding, the column is unplugged and the flow-through containing the purified POI is isolated. Cryo-EM structures of human m6A writer complexes. Cell 169, 930944 (2017). The network-learned independent distributions match empirical residue-specific rotamer distributions, which rotamer libraries typically seek to capture (Supplementary Fig. RNA localization: Contains a 2x array of the binding sequence for RNA-binding protein, MS2. Proof of principle for epitope-focused vaccine design. Two different RAD21 antibodies were used, nRAD21 recognizes the N-terminal domain of RAD21, as used in Fig. Rarey, M. & Stahl, M. Similarity searching in large combinatorial chemistry spaces. The original design sTIM-11 was designed using a combination of Rosetta protocols and manual specification of residues. Google Scholar. OsO4 doseresponse curves were produced using an established protocol4. Nat. The same staining method was used for (d) and (e). Computational design of an enzyme catalyst for a stereoselective bimolecular diels-alder reaction. USA 97, 1038310388 (2000). 2a). Biol. The Rosetta-RelaxBB protocol is highly similar to the Rosetta-FixBB protocol but performs energy minimization of the template backbone in addition to repacking between design cycles, allowing the template backbone to move. Even small gains in fluorescence retained after chemical fixation or other quenching processes can amplify cellular brightness differences, and vice versa. B Model negative PLL of low backbone RMS structures (CA RMSD<5 ) vs. average side-chain RMSD (). Nature 561, 485-491 (2018). PHENIX: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution. Coot: model-building tools for molecular graphics. N terminal, TEV cleavable 6x-His tag: Ophear Gileadi: pET-28-a based expression vector containing N-terminal, TEV cleavable, 6x-His and thioredoxin tags. Role of Hakai in m6A modification pathway in Drosophila. Cell-type-specific TEV protease cleavage reveals cohesin functions in Drosophila neurons. C.F.L. Altogether, the data demonstrate the superior stability of hfYFP against multiple chemical and thermal denaturing challenges. and JavaScript. Science 368, 1454-1459 (2020). Out of 69 purchased compounds, 27 (39%) have Ki values <10M. How can I track requests for my plasmids? Google Scholar. Nature 566, 224229 (2019). Gorgulla, C. et al. 1g), GraphPad Prism was used to perform the statistical analysis of measuring results. The frozen pellets from 50ml of culture were thawed at RT and lysed in B-PER II reagent (Thermo Scientific) supplemented with DNAse I. We selected four test case backbones that span the major CATH classesall alpha, alphabeta, and all-beta (Fig. To obtain Coot44 was then used to confirm the amino acid sequence registration of the initial model and assign amino acids to the cryo-EM density regions that were not resolved by phenix.map_to_model. SeeSAR 10.0: BioSolveIT GmbH (www.biosolveit.de/SeeSAR). In order to speed up convergence, we do blocked sampling of residues. In a time-course experiment with FPs incubated for 1h in 1% OsO4 (the concentration most often used for sample preservation), hfYFP retained greater fluorescence than mEos4b and mhYFP, while all other FPsincluding sfGFPwere almost totally quenched before the first 10-min time point (Fig. Stability, affinity, and chromatic variants of the glutamate sensor iGluSnFR. ), photoactivatable tags for super resolution imaging, epitope tags like His for easy western blotting or staining, and RNA transcript tags to monitor RNA localization. Google Scholar. Angiotensin analogs with divergent bias stabilize distinct receptor conformations. (d). C Spearman rank correlation between model negative PLL or Rosetta energy vs. structure alpha-carbon RMSD () as a function of increasing RMSD cutoff. Acta Crystallogr. A.M. performed the biological assays. WTAP is a novel oncogenic protein in acute myeloid leukemia. Cells with large, bright aggregates, like those in tdTomato, are scored as OSER. Normal cells have healthy reticular ER structure, nuclei, and no OSER structures (see Supplementary Methods; refer to definitions by Costantini et al., Traffic, 2012). Davidson, I. F. et al. Thank you for visiting nature.com. In International Conference on Learning Representations 2020 (2020). Thank you for visiting nature.com. For example, the carbonyl group on the docked ligand that interacts with the tip of the conserved kinase N lobe lysine 105 is displaced 1.8 from the experimental structure and the respective distal phenyl groups underneath the P loop are 3.4 apart. We validated these sequences by computational structure prediction by the Rosetta ab initio application (Supplementary Figs. Approximately 2106 cells were seeded on 100-mm plates for collection and fixation. 1c,d, the 57-kDa, 51-kDa and 44-kDa bands were quantified for fusions of FPs with mScarlet-I, Bcx and SAV, respectively. (h) Aggregated Hi-C data at chromatin loops of three different loop sizes as indicated. c, Purified FP at 0.1M concentration incubated at RT in 16 different concentrations of H2O2 in Tris buffer, pH 7.4, for exactly 15min. The crosslinked sites of METTL3 on WTAP are located at H3 (K155 and K160) and H4 (K192 and K230), while the crosslinked sites of METTL14 on WTAP are only located at H4 (K192) (Fig. Sci. 3a. Schffer, A. ZC3H13 and WTAP are shown in cartoon mode. Structures were solved by molecular replacement using homology models generated from Clover (PDB: 5WJ2)23. Strain energy filtering was done with the Chemalot software package22. J. Struct. Protoc. Fractions of the METTL3/METTL14 complex were collected and concentrated to 20mg/mL. Meanwhile, the stability improvements of the hyperfolder FPs open doors to new applications that have not yet been realized for expression-enhanced biosensors, perhaps along with concomitant decreases in cytotoxicity due to the improvements in protein folding and solubility. Leukemia 28, 11711174 (2014). EMBO J. and JavaScript. Goedhart, J. et al. BP178500), for final concentrations of 0.1M FP and 6.3M GdnHCl (or 0M GdnHCl for the native control samples). 2a,c) and LSSmGFP by using them as fusion tags to visualize all stages of protein purification under denaturing conditions during immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). f, Whole-cell fluorescence intensity of E. coli cultures grown overnight before extraction of soluble protein from the same cultures. 6, 7670 (2015). 30, 127495 (2020). Lower panels: average Hi-C signals along the blue dashed line shown in the left Hi-C map in Fig. Fatalities involving carfentanil and furanyl fentanyl: two case reports. One-phase nonlinear regression is plotted for all FPs except for those with slope = 0 (that is, denatured instantly). Kabsch, W. & Sander, C. Dictionary of protein secondary structure: pattern recognition of hydrogen-bonded and geometrical features. Our structure-guided screening efforts produced a YFP, hfYFP, whose stability in notoriously chaotropic conditions, including OsO4, allowed it to survive CLEM sample preparation with fluorescence retention matching mEos4bs. Article mGL fluorescence was still measurable after 12h, and the signal was above background levels for 24h (Fig. Of particular interest, it is the most conserved fragment in ZC3H13 homologs across species, including flies (Supplementary information,Fig. S6a), which is fitted well with previous biochemical results. Saddle plots for each cell condition were calculated using the E1 calculated from the Hi-C data obtained with G1 cells grown without IAA treatments. Ligands designed to reduce TM6/7 These cells were excluded from quantitation but might represent an important effect. Biophys. 23, 4755 (2014). Photoactivable Fluorescent Protein Expression: contains mEos2 with an N-terminal His tag. 4a,b). Bioorg. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate three slides at a time, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump three slides at a time. Punjani, A., Rubinstein, J. L., Fleet, D. J. Commands to reproduce experiments are provided in Supplementary Data3. hm, Live HeLa cells imaged after overnight transfection using plasmids encoding: h, LifeAct-7aa-hfYFP; actin. Nat. Article Our structural study shows that ZC3H13 uses its C-terminal Barding domain to interact with VIRMA and induce the conformational change of MACOM (Fig. The RNA substrate ACTB-1 from the stop codon region of human ACTB mRNA containing two m6A sites and one RBM15 binding site9 (5- GGCCCCUCCAUCGUCCACCGCAAAUGCUUCUAGGCGGACUAUGACUUAGUUGCGUUACACCCUUUCUUGACAAAACCUAACUUGCACAGAAAACA-3) was obtained by in vitro transcription using T7 RNA polymerase. Systems, Research Each data point represents the average of two independent experiments. Alford, R. F. et al. The m6A writer consists of the catalytic subunit m6A-METTL complex (MAC) and the regulatory subunit m6A-METTL-associated complex (MACOM), the latter being essential for enzymatic activity. Additional value remains to be unlocked from the hfYFP, mhYFP and FOLD6 crystal structures. A total of 12,745 movie stacks for HWVZ, 7642 movie stacks for HWV, and 14,168 movie stacks for HWVZ+M3/14 were collected. The model in this instance learns a distribution over 24 rotamer bins (7. trRosetta uses a deep neural network to predict inter-residue distance and orientation distributions from sequence and multiple sequence alignment (MSA) data. Jung, G., Wiehler, J. For the quantification of ACTB-1 RNA N6-adenosine methylation activity (Fig. Traffic 13, 643649 (2012). How mu-opioid receptor recognizes fentanyl. Further observations about Rosetta performance can be found in Supplementary Note1. The following databases were used for multiple sequence alignments: UniRef90, UniRef100, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (SP). See Supplementary Fig. Source data are provided in this paper. S.S., T.D., and M.G. Uhlmann, F., Lottspeich, F. & Nasmyth, K. Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase onset is promoted by cleavage of the cohesin subunit Scc1. Docking of such large combinatorial spaces is impossible with current hardware limitations. 40, e105977 (2021). The plate was immediately sealed with optical adhesive (Bio-Rad), and the first fluorescent measurement was recorded within ~15s of dilution (ex/em=495/525nm, or 405/525nm for the LSS FPs). The docked poses of the starting fragments are critical for the success of the Space Docking approach. Higashi, T.L., Pobegalov, G., Tang, M., Molodtsov, M.I. CAS Rika, K. et al. Crystallogr. 2), in the presence of H2O2 (Fig. 1d), measurements were carried out using ImageJ. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate three slides at a time, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump three slides at a time. It is necessary to consider whether the refolding buffer is compatible with the specific protease that is intended to cleave the construct (in this case, TEV protease), and also whether the refolding buffer is compatible with IMAC. The hinge residues are at the left and the P loop (green) is at the top of each panel, while the original 2ETR ligand is shown in thin white sticks for reference. 261, 470489 (1996). Solution structure of the RNA recognition domain of METTL3-METTL14 N6-methyladenosine methyltransferase. PubMed built the models. Saddle plots for HAP1-RAD21TEV nuclei treated with TEV as shown. Right panels, RAD21TEV and cleaved fragments were detected using an antibody recognizing C-terminus of RAD21TEV. Data were collected on a Talos L120C transmission electron microscope equipped with a 4K4K CETA CCD camera (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Means.e.m., n=3 experiments. 3a). Purchase access to all full-text HTML articles for 6 or 36 hr at a low cost. Correspondence to c, Soluble fractions isolated from FPs that were expressed from the pBAD vector (no fusion). DNA loop extrusion by human cohesin. 1 Cell-cycle profiles of the HCT-RAD21-mAC cells in different conditions for Hi-C experiments. Tillberg, P. W. et al. Emerging evidence of chromosome folding by loop extrusion. Soc. Three microliters of the samples were applied onto glow-discharged 200-mesh R2/1 Quantifoil copper grids. Our data suggest that misfolding and lower soluble protein yield (Extended Data Fig. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. conducted experimental validation. have filed a patent application (U.S. b, Kinetic unfolding of purified FPs at 1M concentration in buffered GdnHCl 6.3M solution, pH 7.4. Methods 12, 215218 (2015). Integrated methods for the construction of three-dimensional models and computational probing of structure-function relations in G protein-coupled receptors. 2e). Our findings demonstrate the tractability of an entirely learned method for protein sequence design. Transposition is efficient enough that selection is not required. Article (g) Interaction strength of compartments. recruitment of OR promoted by morphine and fentanyl. PubMed A.D. acknowledges support from the National Library of Medicine BD2K training grant LM012409. Extended Data Fig. 4a and 5a). Methods 14, 290296 (2017). Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Cell Research (Cell Res) Notably, Back and Neck adopt different stacking orientations, mainly due to the hydrophobic interaction between ARML10 and ARML11 (Fig. A METTL3METTL14 complex mediates mammalian nuclear RNA N6-adenosine methylation. Training data is publicly available from the PDB (Protein Data Bank) but also provided in prepared form at this link: https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/seq-des-data. Several anaphase cells are visible in the mhYFP image. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-022-00725-8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-022-00725-8. & Nasmyth, K. Molecular architecture of SMC proteins and the yeast cohesin complex. We omit all hydrogen atoms and water molecules, as well as an array of small molecules and ions that are common in crystal structures and/or possible artifacts (Supplementary Data1). S.S. and S.L. Previous study demonstrated that VIRMA in MACOM mediates preferential m6A mRNA methylation in 3 UTR and near stop codon through association with polyadenylation cleavage factors CPSF5 and CPSF6 in an RNA-dependent manner.10 In addition, RBM15, another key component of MACOM, was shown to play an important role in binding the specific site of RNA substrate and recruit m6A writer complex.7,9,30 Further studies of MACOMMAC complex containing RBM15 would help to gain further insights into the mechanism of substrate selection of m6A writer complex. The structure of dimeric ROCK I reveals the mechanism for ligand selectivity. 7b). Melting curves were collected monitoring CD signal at 222 nm over a range of 25 to 95C at 1C intervals, 1min equilibration time and 10s integration time. Methods 10, 407409 (2013). H Fraction occurrence of N-terminal helical capping residues across designs for test cases with capping positions. 13). Gorgulla, C. et al. 6gj). Chem. The best diffracting crystals for F2C were from a well solution consisting of 25% PEG 3350, 0.150 M Li2SO4 H2O, and 0.1 M Bis Tris (pH 6.0). Curve fits for 505nm absorbance data: mono-exponential, mhYFP; double-exponential, mF4Y-SR, mF4P, FOLD6. Article Des. The reservoir solution contained 1517% PEG5K MME, 0.1M HEPES/NaOH pH 7.5, 5% (v/v) tacsimate pH 7.5. 281, 260268 (2006). Means.d., n=2 experiments. CCV extraction was performed according to a previously described protocol 50. We thank J. Naffin-Olivos for assessing the diffraction quality of an early hfYFP crystal. Crystallogr. Wang, J., Cao, H., Zhang, J. J. Comput Aid Mol. Given the methods strong performance under these sequence quality metrics, we sought further confirmation that the model designs would express and be soluble and folded. PubMed By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. Nat. Efficiently folding and circularly permuted variants of the Sapphire mutant of GFP. e, OSER assay results analyzed using scoring criteria described in d. Images in a and d are representative of 2 and at least 3 replicate experiments, respectively. An atomic model composed of WTAP (residues 64247), VIRMA (residues 3341585), and ZC3H13 (residues 14921643) was obtained. Absorbance was collected every 1min for 12min. Correspondence to Crystallogr. d Inter-repeat interactions of ARML-Z1 in the ZC3H13 Barding domain and ARML-4 in the Belly domain. Article Up to 10 docked poses per fragment were generated, which led to a total of 129,125 poses. The lower panels indicate compartment Eigenvector value E1 across the same region. After imaging the live cells, cultures were fixed with CLEM fixative (4% (w/v) PFA+0.2% (w/v) Glut) (Electron Microscopy Sciences) in 100mM phosphate buffer and then collected in 10% BSA using a rubber spatula. Science 352, 680687 (2016). USA 112, E6456E6465 (2015). 190, 411424 (1986). d, Kinetic unfolding of V206 and K206 hyperfolder mutants in GdnHCl. Nienhaus, K. & Nienhaus, G. U. Fluorescent proteins for live-cell imaging with super-resolution. Methods 18, 389396 (2021). To validate the entirely learned approach, we challenged the model to fully redesign sequences given starting backbones. Escherichia coli (E. coli) BL21 (DE3) (Novagen) and DH10Bac (Thermo Fisher Scientific) were grown in LB. CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder toward realistic biological membrane simulations. Biol. 6d) and no B-band excitation was sequenced, yielding hfYFP-G65S/Y203I/Q204E/E222D/R223F, which we named LSSA12. Ping, X.-L. et al. Nature 566, 193194 (2019). 433, 167153 (2021). Acta Crystallogr. with both TM3 and TM6/7 regions. 7. hfYFP also showed strong resistance to aldehyde fixatives and performed well in ExM. (e) Aggregate Hi-C data at TAD boundaries identified in the sample in NB buffer without TEV treatment. hfYFPs stability is uncommon for any class of protein, and perhaps most notable is its peculiar tolerance of GdnHCl solutions of 7M concentration (Fig. Consistently, the GST pull-down results of different WTAP constructs show that H3 and H4 of WTAP are essential for MAC binding (Fig. as a heuristic model energy. b, Quantification of the ~27kDa band using ImageJs densitometry tools. Western blot analysis was performed as indicated in Extended Data Fig. Read below and browse our curated collection of bacterial expression systems to find out more! In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34333443 (2017). This inherently limited the synthetic feasibility of the chemical space that could be explored, since only a subset of fragment combinations could actually participate in validated chemical reactions. Images in c and d are representative of at least two replicate experiments. A cohesin traffic pattern genetically linked to gene regulation. Data for the 29-34Mb region of chromosome 14 is shown. a Local resolution map of the HWVZ+M3/14 complex at high and low threshold levels. Des. supervised the research. and G.A.P. Further details of the calculations that led to the selection of the protein structure and the pharmacophore constraints are described in Supplementary Note1. FPs containing cysteine substitutions are indicated. Lower panel, heatmap of CTCF and RAD21 ChIPseq signals of each condition at each of the 25,879 CTCF binding sites. A different kinase ligand (PDB ID 3V8S) is shown to illustrate both possible hinge interactions that are consistent with the pharmacophore constraint. Gloriam, D. E. Bigger is better in virtual drug screens. Cryo-EM structure of an activated VIP1 receptor-G protein complex revealed by a NanoBiT tethering strategy. (b) TEV proteases at different concentrations cleave RAD21 from HAP1-RAD21TEV purified nuclei. Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube. 3e). C.P.P., N.A., and R.R.E. 9 Two replicates of Hi-C analysis of the nuclei with RAD21 cleaved in HBSS buffer. Mu-opioid receptor desensitization by beta-arrestin-2 determines morphine tolerance but not dependence. Of 13412 active TSS sites, 1,588 were overlapped with CTCF binding sites while 9,423 did not overlap with CTCF binding sites. 29, 236249 (2019). Methods 9, 9991003 (2012). eYFP was only marginally fluorescent after 1h at just 67C, and mNG could not withstand any condition for more than several minutes. Article FPs were expressed in the cytoplasm using AAV transduction and imaged using confocal microscopy. To determine the IC50, compounds were first dispensed by the Echo Liquid Handler (Labcyte) into white 384-well plates (PerkinElmer, Cat# 6008289). Our approach, with its much lower CPU requirements, is a much more efficient method. Purified FPs (1M concentration) were melted at 95C for 10min in the presence of 6.3M GdnHCl, pH 7.5, and were allowed to cool to room temperature (RT). Designed to be used with the, Lactose/IPTG inducible expression of EsaR, a transcription factor responsive to 3OC6HSL. Blue and red lines represent without and with TEV protease treatment, respectively. UCSF ChimeraX: structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers. 15). (f) Hi-C interaction maps for non-synchronous (NS), synchronous (Syn), and G1 cells treated with IAA as shown. We thank Rohan Kannan for help with running and analyzing rotamer repacking experiments. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Nature Methods (Nat Methods) Liu, Y., Dekker, J. CTCFCTCF loops and intra-TAD interactions show differential dependence on cohesin ring integrity. Samples were analyzed by SDSPAGE on 415% Tris-Glycine gels (Bio-Rad), and the 27-kDa band representing the FP monomer was quantified using densitometry tools in ImageJ and normalized to the eGFP value. CAS To facilitate further validation of the method and confirm the postulated binding modes, we obtained co-crystal structures of ROCK1 in complex with Compound 1, the most potent inhibitor identified in the virtual screening campaign, and with Compound 22, an inhibitor we considered structurally unique. a, Excitation spectrum of hfYFP and hfYFP-KSI (hfYFP-V206K/G65S/Y203I). We are interested in sampling from the true distribution of n-length sequences of amino acids Y{120}n conditioned on a fixed protein backbone. Structure of the nociceptin/orphanin FQ receptor in complex with a peptide mimetic. About 60h after P2 virus infection at 27C, cells were harvested by centrifugation at 4000rpm for 10min and cell pellets were collected for protein purification. Direct prediction of profiles of sequences compatible with a protein structure by neural networks with fragment-based local and energy-based nonlocal profiles. Human ROCK1 protein (amino acids 1477 from accession number NP_05397.1) was purchased from Carna Biosciences (Cat# 01-109). 12, 2159 (2021). All data points are shown with double exponential curve fits superimposed. In brief, cells from one confluent 500-cm 2 dish were treated with 2.5 M diABZI for 2 h and then rinsed with PBS twice. 25, 33893402 (1997). Analogously for Compound 22, the azaindole nitrogen atoms involved in hydrogen bond interactions to the kinase hinge are only 0.4 or 1.0 displaced between the experimental and docked poses. Therefore, it is worth verifying that fusions with hyperfolder proteins exhibit their normal stability and half-life, particularly when planning sensitive assays such as those involving protein turnover. Norn, C. et al. Accordingly, our validation study opens the door to structure-based search of a much larger chemical space than was previously available. The secondary structure depictions of WTAP-a and WTAP-b are shown in the top and bottom panels. J. Comput. Ingraham, J., Garg, V. K., Barzilay, R. & Jaakkola, T. Generative models for graph-based protein design. k Interactions between 3, 6 of the ZC3H13 Barding domain and Chest domain of VIRMA, corresponding to the cyan box in a. The criteria used for high-resolution cutoff for the diffraction data are I/sigma 1.5 and CC(1/2) 70%. Vectors come with and without different combinations of His and Strep tags as well as N-terminal PelB tags for localization to the periplasm. (g) Aggregated Hi-C data at loops as in Fig. Proteinprotein interaction analysis18 has revealed that the four components of MACOM, HAKAI, WTAP, VIRMA, and ZC3H13 can form a stable functional complex (hereinafter referred to as HWVZ) in human cells, which has been validated by co-fractionation experiments.7,8,10 WTAP was first identified as a METTL3-interacting protein in plants19 and was shown to be critical for the anchorage of the METTL3/14 heterodimer in nuclear speckles,5 probably through the interactions with Leader Helix (LH) of METTL3.20 VIRMA has been shown to be closely associated with WTAP and HAKAI in plants21 and to mediate preferential m6A mRNA methylation in the 3 UTR.10 ZC3H13 is required for the nuclear localization of MACOM in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs)8 and for bridging WTAPRBM15 interactions in flies.7 HAKAI interacts with other components in MACOM via its RING domain,17,22 which is necessary for the stability of MACOM components22 and m6A methylation in plants and flies.21,23 However, due to the lack of structural information of MACOM, how the components of MACOM are assembled and interact with MAC is not well understood at the molecular level. Four identified s4U-crosslinking sites are located in the ZF2 of METTL3 (F321) and N- and C-terminus of VIRMA (P140, E1597, and F1706) (Fig. Our approach achieves a balance by focusing on the most promising building blocks for expansion, a so-called greedy optimization strategy. The insoluble pellet was washed with PBS plus 1% Triton X-100, briefly sonicated and centrifuged, and the supernatant containing residual soluble protein was discarded. et al. Computational design of environmental sensors for the potent opioid fentanyl. All measurements were performed with identical fluorometer settings. performed the mass spectrometry and analyzed the data. Cell 162, 900910 (2015). When this activation requires a transcription factor to bind to a small molecule, the reporter plasmid can be used to detect the presence of that small molecule and sometimes even quantify it. The pMAL-c6T Vector provides a method for producing a protein expressed from a cloned gene or open reading frame. In contrast, morphine and fentanyl form dual interactions Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate three slides at a time, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump three slides at a time. Crystal structure of the micro-opioid receptor bound to a morphinan antagonist. This assumption motivates the use of a Conditional Markov Random Field (MRF) to model the target distribution, wherein the nodes of the MRF correspond to the residues and rotamer configurations, edges between nodes indicate the possibility of correlation between the residues or rotamers, and each node is conditionally independent of all other nodes, conditioned on the nodes in its Markov Blanket. In these cases you may want to control protein levels or to turn on expression only at a specific time. Copley, R. R. & Bork, P. Homology among () 8 barrels: implications for the evolution of metabolic pathways. 2F and Supplementary Fig. The brightness of human cells expressing transfected FPs (cellular brightness) was obtained using the P2A plasmid coexpression strategy41 and methods as described6. Fluorescence-assisted elution of streptavidin fusion proteins under denaturing conditions. GAPDH was used as loading control. Meech, S. R. Excited state reactions in fluorescent proteins. We anticipate that this type of approach could be used for the design of interfaces, proteinnucleic acid complexes, and ligand binding sites. Rohou, A. We apply this method to identify inhibitors of ROCK1 from almost one billion commercially available compounds. Images were quantified using Fiji (ImageJ). Wavelength scans were collected and averaged over 3 accumulations. (d) FACS analysis of G1 synchronized HCT116-mAC cells treated with IAA as shown. Inf. Emsley, P. & Cowtan, K. Coot: model-building tools for molecular graphics. Images of the mounted cells were then captured using the same imaging settings as described for the live cells. The nucleosides were separated by reverse phase ultra-performance liquid chromatography on a C18 column with online MS detection using an Agilent 6460 QQQ triple-quadrupole LC mass spectrometer in positive electrospray ionization mode. Right, laser-scanning confocal images show 100-nm-thick sections of fluorescent HEK293 cells expressing eGFP (top), mGL (middle) and mhYFP (bottom). The Hi-C protocol was modified for the nuclei treated as described earlier. 232, 6973 (1997). However, removing ZC3H13 from the m6A writer complex dramatically reduces the enzymatic activity (MAC+HWV and MAC+WV in Fig. Imaging settings were specific to each FP to provide optimal exposure without oversaturation. 7A, B) and in general, the model-designed sequences tend not to have hydrophobic residues in solvent-exposed positions, likely due to the abundance of cytosolic protein structures available (Supplementary Fig. ISSN 1748-7838 (online) These were assessed with the HYDE scoring function16,17, and the top-scoring 50,000 poses were imported and inspected in SeeSAR18 to select the best 500 unique building block fragments and associated poses. Mean s.d., n=2 experiments. Comparisons between Chemical Space Docking and docking fully enumerated compound libraries are described in Supplementary Note4. Biol. 5c), and that mT-Sapphire and eGFP would show bleed-through between the 405-nm and 470-nm channels (Fig. Article When exposed to large molar excess quantities of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hfYFP withstood the greatest concentrations. Successful de novo protein designs often lack homology to any known native sequences despite the fact that de novo structures can qualitatively resemble known folds44,45,46. Furthermore, we analyzed the interactions between MACOM and MAC using XL-MS. Data from bis (sulfosuccinimidyl) suberate (BS3)-based XL-MS indicate that METTL3 might interact with WTAP through its N-terminal LH and Zinc Finger 12 (ZF12) domains, while METTL14 interacts with all four components mainly through its N-terminal region (Supplementaryinformation, Fig. 3C). Protein Sci. The photophysics of green fluorescent protein: influence of the key amino acids at positions 65, 203, and 222. Blue arrow shows weakened insulation at boundaries (c). Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. 7DF); this indicates that over the course of model design, polar side-chains that are placed in buried regions are adequately supported by backbone hydrogen bonds or by the design of other side-chains that support the buried residue. hfYFP and FOLD6 have potential to serve similar functions as sfGFP, such as multiple epitope tag insertion33, extremophile research34, bimolecular fluorescence complementation35, sensor stabilization36, circular permutation and random mutagenesis11. i Conformational change of the HWV complex upon ZC3H13 binding, aligned by WTAP. We use a 3D convolutional neural network as our classifier , training the model on X-ray crystal structures of CATH 4.2 S95 domains37,38,39, with train and test set domains separated at the topology level. Intact fusions of LSSmGFP (left), eGFP (center) or hfYFP (right) with streptavidin (SAV) as depicted in Fig. We extracted soluble protein from a subset of mutants and denatured the clarified lysate using the same GdnHCl kinetic unfolding strategy we employed to identify hfYFP. USA 111, 48564861 (2014). Expression and use of superfolder green fluorescent protein at high temperatures in vivo: a tool to study extreme thermophile biology. This collection has a variety of plasmids whose expression levels have been well studied or can be controlled by small molecules, light, temperature, or even intracellular metabolite levels. Can be used in combination with a fluorophore-tagged MS2 (such as that found in. 1d), 33% greater brightness than eYFP and 2.4-fold greater brightness than eGFP in three human cell lines (Fig. TNG buffer: 50mM Tris-HCl, 150mM NaCl, 10% glycerol, pH 7.4. You may not be able to create an account or request plasmids through this website until you upgrade your browser. One such computational method, molecular docking, is widely used in drug discovery initiatives. & Rarey, M. FlexNovo: structurebased searching in large fragment spaces. Right panels: average Hi-C signals along the blue dashed line shown in the left Hi-C map in panel Fig. Over one hundred different RNA modifications have been identified in a variety of RNAs, including mRNA, rRNA, tRNA, snRNA, microRNA, and long noncoding RNA.1 Among these modifications, N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent and conserved ribonucleotide modification.2 m6A modification is enriched in coding sequences and 3 untranslated regions (3 UTRs) of eukaryotic mRNAs and plays crucial roles in numerous physiological and pathophysiological processes.3,4. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these also featured the greatest structural diversity and the most potent examples. 7d). 1d, g), which might be caused by the lack of potential phosphorylation and ubiquitylation that may be important for HAKAI function. The Neck (ARML1115) and Head (ARML1620) are connected following the canonical stacking architecture of the ARML module (Fig. The high-resolution crystal structures of hfYFP, mhYFP and FOLD6 that we solved to 1.7-, 1.6- and 1.2- resolution, respectively, offer excellent templates for biosensor engineering, particularly when combined with our characterization data (Extended Data Table 1), library development approach for the GFPs/YFPs (Supplementary Note), LSS FPs and structural interpretations (Supplementary Information). 13, 5156 (1999). CAS Grebner, C. et al. His 10-wt BRIL was purified by Ni-NTA resin followed by treatment with TEV protease to cleave the His-tag. Whitehead, T. A. et al. J. Mol. Short-term and long-term unfolding curves were generated using 10-s or 1-min sampling interval for total experiment durations of 1h or 12h, respectively. D Biol. Science 329, 309313 (2010). We mutated the six residues simultaneously using a Gibson Assembly overlap approach with oligonucleotides carrying a targeted set of degenerate codons to minimize library size to 384 combinations (Extended Data Fig. Tight and specific lanthanide binding in a de novo tim barrel with a large internal cavity designed by symmetric domain fusion. McCoy, A. J. et al. f, Isothermal melting after 60min of exposure to various temperatures. D Biol. 5g and Extended Data Fig. Simultaneous optimization of biomolecular energy functions on features from small molecules and macromolecules. S.S., S.L., T.D., J.M., and K.Z. Chem. The amino acid sequence between nsp8 (green) and nsp9 (gold) depicting the cleavage site for the nsp5 (dark red) protease. h, Left, toluidine blue staining was used to verify the presence of cells before preparation. performed cryo-EM experiments and structure determination. The ratios of d3-m6A to A and d3-m6A to probe were calculated on the basis of the calibrated concentrations. This was so that we trained primarily on what are believed to be functional forms of the protein macromolecules, including in some cases hydrophobic proteinprotein interfaces that would otherwise appear solvent-exposed. Diffraction data was collected at 100 K using Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) beamlines 12-2 and the Pilatus 6M detector. Alpha-carbon RMSD () and sequence identity to sTIM-11 sequence44 are given below structures. Nat. Strips of UV (405nm) and blue (470nm) LEDs with a wide viewing angle were affixed to a shelf approximately 0.6 m above the work surface and wired to toggle switches. A number of crystal hits came from the SSRL screen using Bis Tris (pH 6.0) as the buffer. 40, 658674 (2007). During sampling, we use greedy graph coloring to generate blocks of independent residues. We obtained Psipred predictions, picked 200 fragments per residue position70, and ran 104 trajectories per design. In this study, we explore an approach for sequence design guided only by a neural network that explicitly models side-chain conformers in a structure-based context (Fig. PubMed Central Upper panels: plots of DNA contents vs RAD21 levels treated with IAA as shown. TEV cleavage site (ENLYFQS) and Ssr tag (AANDENYAAV) are inserted into the C-terminus of RFP in turn (Fig.1). Previous studies have shown that each component of MACOM is essential for m6A modification in various species in vivo,19,21,22,23 and the catalytic subunit MAC is much less active when MACOM components are deleted (Fig. 3h. 2 was drawn from 6WG3 from the Protein Data Bank. Commands to reproduce experiments are provided in Supplementary Data2. An optimally scoring compound pose can be expected to score favorably in all of its component interactions within the binding site. Acta Crystallogr. For F2C, the C-terminal helix is dislodged, although the complete barrel is formed. Chromatin extrusion explains key features of loop and domain formation in wild-type and engineered genomes. MDpocket: open-source cavity detection and characterization on molecular dynamics trajectories. Representative fragment poses are shown in Fig. & Griesbeck, O. PubMed To assess biochemical properties of interest for the designed sequences, we use the following three metrics: (1) packstat, a non-deterministic measure of tight core residue packing59, (2) exposed hydrophobics, which calculates the solvent-accessible surface area (SASA) of hydrophobic residues60, and (3) counts of buried unsatisfied backbone (BB) and side-chain (SC) atoms, which are the number of hydrogen bond donor and acceptor atoms on the backbone and side-chains, respectively, that are not supported by a hydrogen bond. To obtain Do you have suggestions for other plasmids that should be added to this list? Numbers indicate compartment strength. Cytosolic expression, n>227 cells for each condition per FP, centerline of plot indicates median value. 5hk). In vitro methyltransferase activity assay was performed as previously published12 with several modifications. conceived the project, performed experiments and analyzed data. Equal quantity of protein was run in each lane as determined by BCA assay, except for the media condition where equal volume was used without adjustment. Nature 501, 212 (2013). PubMed (d) Comparison of stripe strength to the strength of intra-TAD and CTCFCTCF loop interactions in all samples. Article Article Publishers note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. 2I). Scale bars, 25m. Besides those applications, hfYFP and LSSmGFP enable fluorescence-assisted protein purification and might even act as solubility tags (Fig. HEK293 cells (ATCC) were maintained in Eagles Minimum Essential Medium (EMEM), containing 1mM sodium pyruvate, 4mM l-glutamine, 4.5gml1 glucose and 1.5gml1 sodium bicarbonate. USA 118, e2017228118 (2021). Schwartz, S. et al. Crystallogr. Thompson, L. D. & Weber, P. C. Construction and expression of a synthetic streptavidin-encoding gene in Escherichia coli. CAS A mechanism of cohesin-dependent loop extrusion organizes zygotic genome architecture. 53, 367378 (2021). S1, S2). Methods 123, 5665 (2017). (h) Aggregate Hi-C data at TAD boundaries that were identified in each condition without IAA treatments. Altschul, S. F. et al. Crosslinked peptides were identified and evaluated using pLink2 software.34. The cDNAs of truncated WTAP constructs were cloned into pET28a (with a 6His-SUMO tag) for protein expression in E. coli BL21 (DE3). When fusions were expressed in E. coli at 37C under strong induction conditions to maximize inclusion body formation, we obtained 30% and 60% less mScarlet-I in the insoluble fraction (Extended Data Fig. Although the overall surface charge of VIRMA is mostly negative, several small regions are positively charged (Fig. For each target residue, we align the N-terminal backbone NC bond to the x axis. Introducing the V68Q mutation into mT-Sapphire greatly diminished the 488nm excitation band, suggesting generalizability of this LSSmGFP-derived mutation for spectral tuning of LSS FPs. The eluted peptides were ionized and directly introduced into a Q-Exactive mass spectrometer using a nano-spray source. Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA, You can also search for this author in Since hfYFP can tolerate avFP knockout substitutions (Extended Data Fig. Binding curves were generated using the means of three independent experiments, with standard deviation (SD) values indicated by error bars (n=3). B Rotamer repacking accuracy for buried core residues versus solvent-exposed residues as a function of degree cutoff. and C.F.L. Chemical Space Docking overcomes these obstacles. The protocol for fixation and embedding from Paez-Segala and colleagues4 was followed, with some modifications. Cytosolic expression. Residue and rotamer four-fold symmetry was enforced by averaging predicted logits across symmetric positions before normalizing to a discrete distribution and sampling. 157, 3846 (2007). Structure and stability of cohesins Smc1kleisin interaction. 3d,e); the L195M mutation originated de novo from a PCR error. Both average ChIP signals (upper panels) and heatmap of ChIP signals of CTCF and RAD21 on these two groups of TSS sites are shown. Acta Crystallogr. Haering, C. H., Lowe, J., Hochwagen, A. and A.D. PubMed Central Nature Methods thanks Fedor Subach and the other, anonymous, reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work. These regions are also relatively conserved (Fig. Structure-activity relationships and discovery of a G protein biased Mu Opioid receptor ligand, [(3-methoxythiophen-2-yl)methyl]({2-[(9R)-9-(pyridin-2-yl)-6-oxaspiro-[4.5]decan- 9-yl]ethyl})amine (TRV130), for the treatment of acute severe pain. Article A subset of these 8 structures was predicted to fold with low backbone deviation (<4 ) into the target backbone by Rosetta (F2C, F4C) and trRosetta (F2C, F4C, F8C) (Supplementary Fig. Means.e.m., n=3 experiments. 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