Current opinion in structural biology
Feb 20, 2025
Deep generative models that learn from the distribution of natural protein sequences and structures may enable the design of new proteins with valuable functions. While the majority of today's models focus on generating either sequences or structures...
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...
Artificial intelligence (AI) models have been used to study the compositional regularities of proteins in nature, enabling it to assist in protein design to improve the efficiency of protein engineering and reduce manufacturing cost. However, in indu...
Natural topological proteins exhibit unique properties including enhanced stability, controlled quaternary structures, and dynamic switching properties, highlighting topology as a unique dimension in protein engineering. Although artificial design an...
Machine learning (ML) is changing the world of computational protein design, with data-driven methods surpassing biophysical-based methods in experimental success. However, they are most often reported as case studies, lack integration and standardiz...
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...
Nanobodies (Nbs), miniature antibodies consisting solely of the variable region of heavy chains, exhibit unique properties such as small size, high stability, and strong specificity, making them highly promising for disease diagnosis and treatment. T...
Enzyme engineering is limited by the challenge of rapidly generating and using large datasets of sequence-function relationships for predictive design. To address this challenge, we develop a machine learning (ML)-guided platform that integrates cell...
The pursuit of obtaining enzymes with high activity and stability remains a grail in enzyme evolution due to the stability-activity trade-off. Here, we develop an isothermal compressibility-assisted dynamic squeezing index perturbation engineering (i...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Jan 10, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on natural protein sequences have been used to design functional enzymes. However, their ability to predict individual reaction steps in enzyme catalysis remains unclear, limiting the potential u...
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