Computational design and molecular dynamics simulations suggest the mode of substrate binding in ceramide synthases

Abstract Until now, membrane-protein stabilization has relied on iterations of mutations and screening. We now validate a one-step algorithm, mPROSS, for stabilizing membrane proteins directly from an AlphaFold2 model structure. Applied to the lipid-generating enzyme, ceramide synthase, 37 designed...

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Main Authors: Iris D. Zelnik, Beatriz Mestre, Jonathan J. Weinstein, Tamir Dingjan, Stav Izrailov, Shifra Ben-Dor, Sarel J. Fleishman, Anthony H. Futerman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38047-x