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 …

The role of ligand-gated conformational changes in enzyme catalysis

C Moreira, AR Calixto, JP Richard… - Biochemical Society …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Structural and biochemical studies on diverse enzymes have highlighted the importance of
ligand-gated conformational changes in enzyme catalysis, where the intrinsic binding …

The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression

M Hernández‐Villanueva, S Cordero‐Molina… - Ethology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sexual Selection has been studied predominantly from a functional perspective with
relatively limited investigation of the mechanistic basis of female choice. In this study, we …

De novo design of triosephosphate isomerases using generative language models

S Romero-Romero, AE Braun, T Kossendey, N Ferruz… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The design of proteins with tailored functions is of immense interest to biotechnology,
medicine, and the chemical industry. While protein design is rapidly evolving with the use of …

Stable monomers in the ancestral sequence reconstruction of the last opisthokont common ancestor of dimeric triosephosphate isomerase

JA Pérez‐Niño, Y Guerra, AJ Díaz‐Salazar… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Function and structure are strongly coupled in obligated oligomers such as Triosephosphate
isomerase (TIM). In animals and fungi, TIM monomers are inactive and unstable. Previously …

Survivor bias drives overestimation of stability in reconstructed ancestral proteins

A Thomas, BD Evans, M van der Giezen, NJ Harmer - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Ancestral sequence reconstruction has been broadly employed over the past two decades
to probe the evolutionary history of life. Many ancestral sequences are thermostable …

Gene Cloning, Recombinant Expression, Characterization, and Molecular Modeling of the Glycolytic Enzyme Triosephosphate Isomerase from Fusarium oxysporum

B Hernández-Ochoa, S Gómez-Manzo… - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) is a glycolysis enzyme, which catalyzes the reversible
isomerization between dihydroxyactetone-3-phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde-3 …

Kinetic and Structural Studies on Triosephosphate Isomerase: Perturbation of the Catalytic Glutamate-167 Basicity and the Role of Asparagine-11 in Catalysis

R Hegazy - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is a glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the rapid
interconversion of dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and (R)-D-glyceraldehyde 3 …

The FEBS Journal: hidden gems

M Breuer - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Every quarter, The FEBS Journal presents some of its 'hidden gems'–original research and
review‐type articles that provide a significant advance or discuss recent developments in the …

[PDF][PDF] Gene cloning, recombinant expression, characterization, and molecular modeling of the glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase from fusarium oxysporum

R Arreguin - 2020 - rdu.iquimica.unam.mx
Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) is a glycolysis enzyme, which catalyzes the reversible
isomerization between dihydroxyactetone-3-phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde-3 …