Machine learning-guided protein engineering

P Kouba, P Kohout, F Haddadi, A Bushuiev… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent progress in engineering highly promising biocatalysts has increasingly involved
machine learning methods. These methods leverage existing experimental and simulation …

Engineering functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction

RES Thomson, SE Carrera-Pacheco… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Natural proteins are often only slightly more stable in the native state than the denatured
state, and an increase in environmental temperature can easily shift the balance toward …

[HTML][HTML] Insertions and deletions in protein evolution and engineering

S Savino, T Desmet, J Franceus - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein evolution or engineering studies are traditionally focused on amino acid
substitutions and the way these contribute to fitness. Meanwhile, the insertion and deletion …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction of a cytochrome P450 family involved in chemical defense reveals the functional evolution of a promiscuous, xenobiotic …

KL Harris, RES Thomson, Y Gumulya… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The cytochrome P450 family 1 enzymes (CYP1s) are a diverse family of hemoprotein
monooxygenases, which metabolize many xenobiotics including numerous environmental …

Following the Evolutionary Paths of Dscam1 Proteins toward Highly Specific Homophilic Interactions

G Wiseglass, R Rubinstein - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Many adhesion proteins, evolutionarily related through gene duplication, exhibit distinct and
precise interaction preferences and affinities crucial for cell patterning. Yet, the evolutionary …

Remote loop evolution reveals a complex biological function for chitinase enzymes beyond the active site

D Kozome, A Sljoka, P Laurino - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Loops are small secondary structural elements that play a crucial role in the emergence of
new enzyme functions. However, the evolutionary molecular mechanisms how proteins …

Rational and mechanistic approaches for improving biocatalyst performance

A Phintha, P Chaiyen - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
Enzymes are biocatalysts capable of catalyzing reactions under environmentally friendly
conditions and can be applied in a wide variety of applications. However, biocatalysts are …

Single-character insertion–deletion model preserves long indels in ancestral sequence reconstruction

G Jowkar, J Pečerska, M Gil, M Anisimova - BMC bioinformatics, 2024 - Springer
Insertions and deletions (indels) play a significant role in genome evolution across species.
Realistic modelling of indel evolution is challenging and is still an open research question …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction as a tool to study the evolution of wood decaying fungi

I Ayuso-Fernandez, G Molpeceres… - Frontiers in Fungal …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The study of evolution is limited by the techniques available to do so. Aside from the use of
the fossil record, molecular phylogenetics can provide a detailed characterization of …

Beyond the Active Site: The addition of a remote loop reveals a new complex biological function for chitinase enzymes

D Kozome, A Sljoka, P Laurino - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Loops are small secondary structural elements that play a crucial role in the emergence of
new enzyme functions. However, the evolutionary molecular mechanisms how proteins …