Recent progress in engineering highly promising biocatalysts has increasingly involved
machine learning methods. These methods leverage existing experimental and simulation …

In the early 2000s, Tawfik presented his 'New View'on enzyme evolution, highlighting the
role of conformational plasticity in expanding the functional diversity of limited repertoires of …

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 …

Protein dynamics are often invoked in explanations of enzyme catalysis, but their design has
proven elusive. Here we track the role of dynamics in evolution, starting from the evolvable …

Thermostable proteins find their use in numerous biomedical and biotechnological
applications. However, the computational design of stable proteins often results in single …

The widely used coelenterazine-powered Renilla luciferase was discovered over 40 years
ago, but the oxidative mechanism by which it generates blue photons remains unclear. Here …

Therapeutic enzymes are valuable biopharmaceuticals in various biomedical applications.
They have been successfully applied for fibrinolysis, cancer treatment, enzyme replacement …

Protein fold adaptation to novel enzymatic reactions is a fundamental evolutionary process.
Cofactor-independent oxygenases degrading N-heteroaromatic substrates belong to the α/β …

Conformational flexibility plays a critical role in enzyme function and regulation.
Conformational changes, which can occur on multiple length and time scales, facilitate, for …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) provides insight into the changes within a protein
sequence across evolution. More specifically, it can illustrate how specific amino acid …