AIMC Topic: Biocatalysis

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Computer-Aided Techniques in the Engineering of Enzyme Binding Pockets: New Perspectives and Frontiers.

Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
Enzymes, recognized for their remarkable catalytic efficiency, play a crucial role in a myriad of biochemical reactions. However, the catalytic performance of natural enzymes frequently does not meet the demands of specific applications. To address t...

ESM-Ezy: a deep learning strategy for the mining of novel multicopper oxidases with superior properties.

Nature communications
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...

Enhancing the synthesis efficiency of galacto-oligosaccharides of a β-galactosidase from Paenibacillus barengoltzii by engineering the active and distal sites.

Food chemistry
Previously, a glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 2 β-galactosidase (PbBGal2A) from Paenibacillus barengoltzii is characterized for its high transglycosylation capability. Here, the cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of PbBGal2A was determined,...

Graphene-based FETs for advanced biocatalytic profiling: investigating heme peroxidase activity with machine learning insights.

Mikrochimica acta
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...

Deep learning-driven semi-rational design in phenylalanine ammonia-lyase for enhanced catalytic efficiency.

International journal of biological macromolecules
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...

Long-Range Electrostatics in Serine Proteases: Machine Learning-Driven Reaction Sampling Yields Insights for Enzyme Design.

Journal of chemical information and modeling
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...

Machine Learning Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Potentials: Evaluating Transferability in Dihydrofolate Reductase-Catalyzed Reactions.

Journal of chemical theory and computation
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...

BioStructNet: Structure-Based Network with Transfer Learning for Predicting Biocatalyst Functions.

Journal of chemical theory and computation
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...

Protein representations: Encoding biological information for machine learning in biocatalysis.

Biotechnology advances
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...

On synergy between ultrahigh throughput screening and machine learning in biocatalyst engineering.

Faraday discussions
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...