A team of bio engineers led by UC San Francisco’s Hana El-Samad, PhD, and the University of Washington’s David Baker have designed artificial proteins and synthesized them in lab environments. The potential for customized circuits inside living cells heralds a new era of options for what is possible to do with proteins.
A new protein, formally known as the Latching Orthogonal Cage-Key pRotein, or LOCKR, is described in a pair of papers published July 24 2019 in the journal Nature.
De novo-designed proteins hold great promise as building blocks for synthetic circuits, and can complement the use of engineered variants of natural proteins
Read more about the discovery here or directly on Nature here
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