Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function

D Listov, CA Goverde, BE Correia… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The field of protein design has made remarkable progress over the past decade. Historically,
the low reliability of purely structure-based design methods limited their application, but …

Principles and practical applications of structure-based vaccine design

PO Byrne, JS McLellan - Current opinion in immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Summary of the basic principles of structure-based vaccine design.•Review of
recent advances (the years 2019–2021) in structure-based vaccine design.•Preview of …

Mega-scale experimental analysis of protein folding stability in biology and design

K Tsuboyama, J Dauparas, J Chen, E Laine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in DNA sequencing and machine learning are providing insights into protein
sequences and structures on an enormous scale. However, the energetics driving folding …

Advancing enzyme's stability and catalytic efficiency through synergy of force-field calculations, evolutionary analysis, and machine learning

A Kunka, SM Marques, M Havlasek, M Vasina… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermostability is an essential requirement for the use of enzymes in the bioindustry. Here,
we compare different protein stabilization strategies using a challenging target, a stable …

Stable and functionally diverse versatile peroxidases designed directly from sequences

S Barber-Zucker, V Mindel, E Garcia-Ruiz… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
White-rot fungi secrete a repertoire of high-redox potential oxidoreductases to efficiently
decompose lignin. Of these enzymes, versatile peroxidases (VPs) are the most promiscuous …

Designed high-redox potential laccases exhibit high functional diversity

S Barber-Zucker, I Mateljak, M Goldsmith… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
White-rot fungi secrete an impressive repertoire of high-redox potential laccases (HRPLs)
and peroxidases for efficient oxidation and utilization of lignin. Laccases are attractive …

Improving the secretion of designed protein assemblies through negative design of cryptic transmembrane domains

JY Wang, A Khmelinskaia, W Sheffler… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Computationally designed protein nanoparticles have recently emerged as a promising
platform for the development of new vaccines and biologics. For many applications …

Tools for computational design and high-throughput screening of therapeutic enzymes

M Vasina, J Velecký, J Planas-Iglesias… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Therapeutic enzymes are valuable biopharmaceuticals in various biomedical applications.
They have been successfully applied for fibrinolysis, cancer treatment, enzyme replacement …

Enhancing thermostability of lipase from Pseudomonas alcaligenes for producing l-menthol by the CREATE strategy

Z Yu, H Yu, J Xu, Z Wang, Z Wang, T Kang… - Catalysis Science & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A lipase from Pseudomonas alcaligenes (PaL) catalyzes the hydrolysis of racemic menthol
propionate to produce L-menthol, one of the most important flavouring agents in the food …

[HTML][HTML] A concise guide to choosing suitable gene expression systems for recombinant protein production

A Schütz, F Bernhard, N Berrow, JF Buyel… - STAR protocols, 2023 - Elsevier
This overview guides both novices and experienced researchers facing challenging targets
to select the most appropriate gene expression system for producing a particular protein. By …