Recognition in the domain of molecular chirality: from noncovalent interactions to separation of enantiomers

P Peluso, B Chankvetadze - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is not a coincidence that both chirality and noncovalent interactions are ubiquitous in
nature and synthetic molecular systems. Noncovalent interactivity between chiral molecules …

The crucial role of methodology development in directed evolution of selective enzymes

G Qu, A Li, CG Acevedo‐Rocha, Z Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Directed evolution of stereo‐, regio‐, and chemoselective enzymes constitutes a unique way
to generate biocatalysts for synthetically interesting transformations in organic chemistry and …

Embracing nature's catalysts: a viewpoint on the future of biocatalysis

B Hauer - Acs Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are nature's catalysts that are designed to accelerate specific reactions up to 106
times with high selectivity. 1 The enormous potential of enzymes as catalysts for organic …

P2Rank: machine learning based tool for rapid and accurate prediction of ligand binding sites from protein structure

R Krivák, D Hoksza - Journal of cheminformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Ligand binding site prediction from protein structure has many applications
related to elucidation of protein function and structure based drug discovery. It often …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning for biochemical engineering: A review

M Mowbray, T Savage, C Wu, Z Song, BA Cho… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The field of machine learning is comprised of techniques, which have proven powerful
approaches to knowledge discovery and construction of 'digital twins' in the highly …

Covalent organic framework electrocatalysts for clean energy conversion

CY Lin, D Zhang, Z Zhao, Z **a - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are promising for catalysis, sensing, gas storage,
adsorption, optoelectricity, etc. owning to the unprecedented combination of large surface …

Bioremediation 3.0: engineering pollutant-removing bacteria in the times of systemic biology

P Dvořák, PI Nikel, J Damborský, V de Lorenzo - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Elimination or mitigation of the toxic effects of chemical waste released to the environment
by industrial and urban activities relies largely on the catalytic activities of microorganisms …

Thermal stability enhancement: Fundamental concepts of protein engineering strategies to manipulate the flexible structure

M Rahban, S Zolghadri, N Salehi, F Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the temperature by just a few degrees may lead to structural perturbation or
unfolding of the protein and consequent loss of function. The concepts of flexibility and …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

The challenge of predicting distal active site mutations in computational enzyme design

S Osuna - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many computational enzyme design approaches have been developed in recent years that
focus on a reduced set of key enzymatic features. Initial protocols mostly focused on the …