The UniProt database is a valuable resource for biocatalyst discovery, yet predicting enzymatic functions remains challenging, especially for low-similarity sequences. Identifying superior enzymes with enhanced catalytic properties is even harder. To...
Graphene-based field-effect transistors (GFETs) are rapidly gaining recognition as powerful tools for biochemical analysis due to their exceptional sensitivity and specificity. In this study, we utilize a GFET system to explore the peroxidase-based b...
International journal of biological macromolecules
Feb 19, 2025
Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) possesses significant potential in agriculture, industry, and the treatment of various diseases, including cancer. In particular, PAL derived from Anabaena variabilis (AvPAL) has been successfully utilized in clinica...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 10, 2025
Computational enzyme design is a promising technique for producing novel enzymes for industrial and clinical needs. A key challenge that this technique faces is to consistently achieve the desired activity. Fundamental studies of natural enzymes reve...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 15, 2025
Integrating machine learning potentials (MLPs) with quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) free energy simulations has emerged as a powerful approach for studying enzymatic catalysis. However, its practical application has been hindered by t...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 20, 2024
Enzyme-substrate interactions are essential to both biological processes and industrial applications. Advanced machine learning techniques have significantly accelerated biocatalysis research, revolutionizing the prediction of biocatalytic activities...
Enzymes offer a more environmentally friendly and low-impact solution to conventional chemistry, but they often require additional engineering for their application in industrial settings, an endeavour that is challenging and laborious. To address th...
Protein design and directed evolution have separately contributed enormously to protein engineering. Without being mutually exclusive, the former relies on computation from first principles, while the latter is a combinatorial approach based on chanc...
Global environmental issues and sustainable development call for new technologies for fine chemical synthesis and waste valorization. Biocatalysis has attracted great attention as the alternative to the traditional organic synthesis. However, it is c...
The effective design of combinatorial libraries to balance fitness and diversity facilitates the engineering of useful enzyme functions, particularly those that are poorly characterized or unknown in biology. We introduce MODIFY, a machine learning (...
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