Computational design of trimeric influenza-neutralizing proteins targeting the hemagglutinin receptor binding site.
Strauch, E.M., Bernard, S.M., La, D., Bohn, A.J., Lee, P.S., Anderson, C.E., Nieusma, T., Holstein, C.A., Garcia, N.K., Hooper, K.A., Ravichandran, R., Nelson, J.W., Sheffler, W., Bloom, J.D., Lee, K.K., Ward, A.B., Yager, P., Fuller, D.H., Wilson, I.A., Baker, D.(2017) Nat Biotechnol 35: 667-671
- PubMed: 28604661 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3907
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5KUX, 5KUY - PubMed Abstract: 
Many viral surface glycoproteins and cell surface receptors are homo-oligomers, and thus can potentially be targeted by geometrically matched homo-oligomers that engage all subunits simultaneously to attain high avidity and/or lock subunits together. The adaptive immune system cannot generally employ this strategy since the individual antibody binding sites are not arranged with appropriate geometry to simultaneously engage multiple sites in a single target homo-oligomer ...