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Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Biophys. 2013 Feb 28;42:10.1146/annurev-biophys-083012-130315. doi: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-083012-130315

Table 1.

De novo, computationally designed proteins validated by NMR or X-ray structure determination

Year PDB ID Length Fold Experiment Computational method
1997 1fsd 28 β−β−α motif NMR Pairwise residue-rotamer energy optimized by dead-end elimination (17)
1999 2a3d 73 Three-helix bundle NMR Started from coiled coil, hydrophobic core repacked by a genetic algorithm (9)
2003 1qys 106 Novel α+β X-ray (1.2 Å) Combining structure prediction with sequence design (RosettaDesign) (58)
2004 1vjq 79 α/β X-ray (2.1 Å) RosettaDesign (21)
2005 2cw1 65 α+β NMR Optimizing a knowledge-based energy score by simulated annealing (47)
2005 2a3j 127 α+β NMR RosettaDesign (27)
2007 2p6j 52 Three-helix bundle NMR Fixed binary pattern, energy optimization by dead-end elimination, side chain conformations by Monte Carlo–simulated annealing (104)
2007 3b83 100 β-sandwich X-ray (2.4 Å) Energy function specifically optimized for β proteins (RosettaDesign) (45)
2008 2jvf 96 α+β NMR Sequences generated from local tetrapeptide fragment library with some core residues fixed (108)
2009 2ki0 36 Novel β−α−β NMR A combination of knowledge-based secondary structure design with energy optimization (65)
2011 3u3b 113 Four-helix bundle X-ray (1.85 Å) Allowed backbone flexibility for redesigning the entire hydrophobic core (RosettaDesign) (81)
2011 3tdm 126 TIM-barrel α/β X-ray (2 Å) Imposing symmetry in RosettaDesign (36)