Hierarchical classification of glycoside hydrolases

DG Naumoff - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2011 - Springer
This review deals with structural and functional features of glycoside hydrolases, a
widespread group of enzymes present in almost all living organisms. Their catalytic domains …

Catalytic Versatility, Stability, and Evolution of the (βα)8-Barrel Enzyme Fold

R Sterner, B Höcker - Chemical Reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Natural evolution has yielded enzymes that catalyze virtually all metabolic reactions under
mild conditions with high specificities and enormous rate enhancements. 1 It has been a …

A vocabulary of ancient peptides at the origin of folded proteins

V Alva, J Söding, AN Lupas - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The seemingly limitless diversity of proteins in nature arose from only a few thousand
domain prototypes, but the origin of these themselves has remained unclear. We are …

Evolution of function in (β/α) 8-barrel enzymes

JA Gerlt, FM Raushel - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2003 - Elsevier
The (β/α) 8-barrel is the most common fold in structurally characterized enzymes. Whether
the functionally diverse enzymes that share this fold are the products of either divergent or …

Exploiting enzyme evolution for computational protein design

GP Pinto, M Corbella, AO Demkiv… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in understanding the physicochemical
parameters that shape enzyme evolution, as well as substantial advances in computational …

Mimicking enzyme evolution by generating new (βα)8-barrels from (βα)4-half-barrels

B Höcker, J Claren, R Sterner - Proceedings of the National …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Gene duplication and fusion events that multiply and link functional protein domains are
crucial mechanisms of enzyme evolution. The analysis of amino acid sequences and three …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and analysis of natural building blocks for evolution-guided fragment-based protein design

N Ferruz, F Lobos, D Lemm, S Toledo-Patino… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural evolution has generated an impressively diverse protein universe via duplication
and recombination from a set of protein fragments that served as building blocks. The …

AdoMet radical proteins—from structure to evolution—alignment of divergent protein sequences reveals strong secondary structure element conservation

Y Nicolet, CL Drennan - Nucleic acids research, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Eighteen subclasses of S-adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet) radical proteins have been
aligned in the first bioinformatics study of the AdoMet radical superfamily to utilize …

Evolutionary relationship of two ancient protein superfolds

JA Farías-Rico, S Schmidt, B Höcker - Nature chemical biology, 2014 - nature.com
Proteins are the molecular machines of the cell that fold into specific three-dimensional
structures to fulfill their functions. To improve our understanding of how the structure and …

From ancestral peptides to designed proteins

V Alva, AN Lupas - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Domains may not represent the only unit of protein structure.•The first folded
proteins are likely to have evolved from simple peptides in an ancient RNA-peptide …