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De novo design of potent and selective mimics of IL-2 and IL-15.

Daniel-Adriano Silva | Shawn Yu | Umut Y Ulge | Jamie B Spangler | Kevin M Jude | Carlos Labão-Almeida | Lestat R Ali | Alfredo Quijano-Rubio | Mikel Ruterbusch | Isabel Leung | Tamara Biary | Stephanie J Crowley | Enrique Marcos | Carl D Walkey | Brian D Weitzner | Fátima Pardo-Avila | Javier Castellanos | Lauren Carter | Lance Stewart | Stanley R Riddell | Marion Pepper | Gonçalo J L Bernardes | Michael Dougan | K Christopher Garcia | David Baker
Nature | 2019

We describe a de novo computational approach for designing proteins that recapitulate the binding sites of natural cytokines, but are otherwise unrelated in topology or amino acid sequence. We use this strategy to design mimics of the central immune cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) that bind to the IL-2 receptor βγc heterodimer (IL-2Rβγc) but have no binding site for IL-2Rα (also called CD25) or IL-15Rα (also known as CD215). The designs are hyper-stable, bind human and mouse IL-2Rβγc with higher affinity than the natural cytokines, and elicit downstream cell signalling independently of IL-2Rα and IL-15Rα. Crystal structures of the optimized design neoleukin-2/15 (Neo-2/15), both alone and in complex with IL-2Rβγc, are very similar to the designed model. Neo-2/15 has superior therapeutic activity to IL-2 in mouse models of melanoma and colon cancer, with reduced toxicity and undetectable immunogenicity. Our strategy for building hyper-stable de novo mimetics could be applied generally to signalling proteins, enabling the creation of superior therapeutic candidates.

Pubmed ID: 30626941

Associated grants

  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM059224
  • Agency: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 AI051321
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R35 GM122543
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD012289
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD021832
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K08 DK114563
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AI051321
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 GM007266
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AI108626
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P41 GM103393

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