De novo design of potent and selective mimics of IL-2 and IL-15.
Silva, D.A., Yu, S., Ulge, U.Y., Spangler, J.B., Jude, K.M., Labao-Almeida, C., Ali, L.R., Quijano-Rubio, A., Ruterbusch, M., Leung, I., Biary, T., Crowley, S.J., Marcos, E., Walkey, C.D., Weitzner, B.D., Pardo-Avila, F., Castellanos, J., Carter, L., Stewart, L., Riddell, S.R., Pepper, M., Bernardes, G.J.L., Dougan, M., Garcia, K.C., Baker, D.(2019) Nature 565: 186-191
- PubMed: 30626941 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0830-7
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6DG5, 6DG6 - PubMed Abstract: 
We describe a de novo computational approach for designing proteins that recapitulate the binding sites of natural cytokines, but are otherwise unrelated in topology or amino acid sequence. We use this strategy to design mimics of the central immune cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) that bind to the IL-2 receptor βγ c heterodimer (IL-2Rβγ c ) but have no binding site for IL-2Rα (also called CD25) or IL-15Rα (also known as CD215) ...