Paper Citing NAMD - Abstract
Sormanni, Pietro; Aprile, Francesco A.; Vendruscolo, Michele
The CamSol Method of Rational Design of Protein Mutants with Enhanced Solubility
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 427:478-490, JAN 30 2015
Protein solubility is often an essential requirement in biotechnological and biomedical applications. Great advances in understanding the principles that determine this specific property of proteins have been made during the past decade, in particular concerning the physicochemical characteristics of their constituent amino acids. By exploiting these advances, we present the Cam Sol method for the rational design of protein variants with enhanced solubility. The method works by performing a rapid computational screening of tens of thousand of mutations to identify those with the greatest impact on the solubility of the target protein while maintaining its native state and biological activity. The application to a single-domain antibody that targets the Alzheimer's A beta peptide demonstrates that the method predicts with great accuracy solubility changes upon mutation, thus offering a cost-effective strategy to help the production of soluble proteins for academic and industrial purposes. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
