The coming of age of de novo protein design

PS Huang, SE Boyken, D Baker - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
There are 20200 possible amino-acid sequences for a 200-residue protein, of which the
natural evolutionary process has sampled only an infinitesimal subset. De novo protein …

A user's guide to cell-free protein synthesis

NE Gregorio, MZ Levine, JP Oza - Methods and protocols, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is a platform technology that provides new opportunities
for protein expression, metabolic engineering, therapeutic development, education, and …

Generative models for graph-based protein design

J Ingraham, V Garg, R Barzilay… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Engineered proteins offer the potential to solve many problems in biomedicine, energy, and
materials science, but creating designs that succeed is difficult in practice. A significant …

Expanding functional protein sequence spaces using generative adversarial networks

D Repecka, V Jauniskis, L Karpus… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
De novo protein design for catalysis of any desired chemical reaction is a long-standing goal
in protein engineering because of the broad spectrum of technological, scientific and …

De novo gene birth

SB Van Oss, AR Carvunis - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
De novo gene birth is the process by which new genes evolve from DNA sequences that
were ancestrally non-genic. De novo genes represent a subset of novel genes, and may be …

[HTML][HTML] Protein–protein interaction prediction with deep learning: A comprehensive review

F Soleymani, E Paquet, H Viktor, W Michalowski… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Most proteins perform their biological function by interacting with themselves or other
molecules. Thus, one may obtain biological insights into protein functions, disease …

Catalytic DNA: scope, applications, and biochemistry of deoxyribozymes

SK Silverman - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The discovery of natural RNA enzymes (ribozymes) prompted the pursuit of artificial DNA
enzymes (deoxyribozymes) by in vitro selection methods. A key motivation is the conceptual …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Exploring protein fitness landscapes by directed evolution

PA Romero, FH Arnold - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Directed evolution circumvents our profound ignorance of how a protein's sequence
encodes its function by using iterative rounds of random mutation and artificial selection to …

Root of the tree: the significance, evolution, and origins of the ribosome

JC Bowman, AS Petrov, M Frenkel-Pinter… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ribosome is an ancient molecular fossil that provides a telescope to the origins of life.
Made from RNA and protein, the ribosome translates mRNA to coded protein in all living …