Michel E Plückthun A Zerbe O 2018 Herein, we present the peptide-guided assembly of complementary fragments of designed armadillo repeat proteins (dArmRPs) to create proteins that bind peptides not only with high affinity but also with good selectivity. We recently demonstrated that complementary N- and C-terminal fragments of dArmRPs form high-affinity complexes that resemble the structure of the full-length protein, and that these complexes bind their target peptides. We now demonstrate that dArmRPs can be split such that the fragments assemble only in the presence of a templating peptide, and that fragment mixtures enrich the combination with the highest affinity for this peptide. The enriched fragment combination discriminates single amino acid variations in the target peptide with high specificity. Our results suggest novel opportunities for the generation of new peptide binders by selection from dArmRP fragment mixtures. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/18831 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/anie.201713377 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/29480529 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). - 2018 armadillo repeat peptide binding protein design repeat proteins split proteins Models, Molecular Peptides Proteins Peptide-Guided Assembly of Repeat Protein Fragments. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501