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1076: Vancomycin Binder Design

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Intermediate Overall Design

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Created
April 16, 2015
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100
Description

Design a binding pocket for vancomycin! Scientists in the Baker Lab are trying to design proteins that can bind vancomycin and upon binding generate a signal. With this technology it would be possible to test patients that have been treated with antibiotics if they still have small amounts left before they leave e.g. a hospital. The aim of this puzzle is to optimize the interaction between a protein and the small molecule vancomycin. This puzzle has four different starting structures, all with slightly different residues at the binding site; resetting the puzzle will cycle through the different models.

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