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Computational and biochemical design of a nanopore cleavable by a cancer-secreted enzyme.
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology - 9 Feb 2015
Pittel Ilya, Alper Naomi, Yonai Shiran, Basch Shani, Blum Leah, Bachur Ayelet, Paas Yoav
Abstract excerpt
Many proteinaceous macromolecules selectively transport substrates across lipid bilayers and effectively serve as gated nanopores. Here, we engineered cleavage-site motifs for human matrix metalloprotease 7 (MMP-7) into the extracellular and pore-constricting loops of OprD, a bacterial substrate-specific transmembrane channel. Concurrent removal of two extracellular loops allowed MMP-7 to access and hydrolyze a...
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