Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Machine-learning-guided directed evolution for protein engineering

KK Yang, Z Wu, FH Arnold - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
Protein engineering through machine-learning-guided directed evolution enables the
optimization of protein functions. Machine-learning approaches predict how sequence maps …

Using machine learning to predict the effects and consequences of mutations in proteins

DJ Diaz, AV Kulikova, AD Ellington, CO Wilke - Current opinion in structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine and deep learning approaches can leverage the increasingly available
massive datasets of protein sequences, structures, and mutational effects to predict variants …

[HTML][HTML] Limitations and challenges in protein stability prediction upon genome variations: towards future applications in precision medicine

T Sanavia, G Birolo, L Montanucci, P Turina… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Protein stability predictions are becoming essential in medicine to develop novel
immunotherapeutic agents and for drug discovery. Despite the large number of …

Computational design of enzymes for biotechnological applications

J Planas-Iglesias, SM Marques, GP Pinto, M Musil… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enzymes are the natural catalysts that execute biochemical reactions upholding life. Their
natural effectiveness has been fine-tuned as a result of millions of years of natural evolution …

Computational design of stable and soluble biocatalysts

M Musil, H Konegger, J Hon, D Bednar… - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Natural enzymes are delicate biomolecules possessing only marginal thermodynamic
stability. Poorly stable, misfolded, and aggregated proteins lead to huge economic losses in …

Biosystems design by machine learning

MJ Volk, I Lourentzou, S Mishra, LT Vo… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biosystems such as enzymes, pathways, and whole cells have been increasingly explored
for biotechnological applications. However, the intricate connectivity and resulting …

A critical review of five machine learning-based algorithms for predicting protein stability changes upon mutation

J Fang - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A number of machine learning (ML)-based algorithms have been proposed for predicting
mutation-induced stability changes in proteins. In this critical review, we used hypothetical …

FireProt 2.0: web-based platform for the fully automated design of thermostable proteins

M Musil, A Jezik, J Horackova, S Borko… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Thermostable proteins find their use in numerous biomedical and biotechnological
applications. However, the computational design of stable proteins often results in single …

Protein thermostability engineering

HP Modarres, MR Mofrad, A Sanati-Nezhad - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of enzymes for industrial and biomedical applications is limited to their function at
elevated temperatures. The principles of thermostability engineering need to be …