The structural rules governing the curving folds of solenoid proteins, as distilled down to the level of the underlying sequence repeats, provide designers with the tools to reliably fashion new variants with tunable geometries. Bespoke leucine-rich repeat (LRR) scaffolds, as recognition proteins, can now be tailored to better fit their targets.
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Bazan, J., Kajava, A. Designs on a curve. Nat Struct Mol Biol 22, 103–105 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2966
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