International journal of biological macromolecules
Aug 5, 2024
Enhancing the thermostability of enzymes is crucial for industrial applications. Methods such as directed evolution are often limited by the huge sequence space and combinatorial explosion, making it difficult to obtain optimal mutants. In recent yea...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Aug 1, 2024
Protein engineering through directed evolution and (semi)rational approaches is routinely applied to optimize protein properties for a broad range of applications in industry and academia. The multitude of possible variants, combined with limited scr...
Machine learning (ML) has transformed protein engineering by constructing models of the underlying sequence-function landscape to accelerate the discovery of new biomolecules. ML-guided protein design requires models, trained on local sequence-functi...
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 (...
Protein design and engineering are evolving at an unprecedented pace leveraging the advances in deep learning. Current models nonetheless cannot natively consider non-protein entities within the design process. Here, we introduce a deep learning appr...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 22, 2024
Enzyme engineering involves the customization of enzymes by introducing mutations to expand the application scope of natural enzymes. One limitation of that is the complex interaction between two key properties, activity and stability, where the enha...
Mutations in amino acid sequences can provoke changes in protein function. Accurate and unsupervised prediction of mutation effects is critical in biotechnology and biomedicine, but remains a fundamental challenge. To resolve this challenge, here we ...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Jun 26, 2024
Using machine learning, molecular dynamics simulations, and density functional theory calculations we gain insight into the selectivity patterns of substrate activation by the cytochromes P450. In nature, the reactions catalyzed by the P450s lead to ...
Microbial cell factories (MCFs) have been leveraged to construct sustainable platforms for value-added compound production. To optimize metabolism and reach optimal productivity, synthetic biology has developed various genetic devices to engineer mic...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jun 24, 2024
Machine learning has been proposed as an alternative to theoretical modeling when dealing with complex problems in biological physics. However, in this perspective, we argue that a more successful approach is a proper combination of these two methodo...
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