Opportunities and challenges for machine learning-assisted enzyme engineering

J Yang, FZ Li, FH Arnold - ACS Central Science, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enzymes can be engineered at the level of their amino acid sequences to optimize key
properties such as expression, stability, substrate range, and catalytic efficiency─ or even to …

MoCHI: neural networks to fit interpretable models and quantify energies, energetic couplings, epistasis, and allostery from deep mutational scanning data

AJ Faure, B Lehner - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
We present MoCHI, a tool to fit interpretable models using deep mutational scanning data.
MoCHI infers free energy changes, as well as interaction terms (energetic couplings) for …

Epistasis facilitates functional evolution in an ancient transcription factor

BPH Metzger, Y Park, TN Starr, JW Thornton - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
A protein's genetic architecture–the set of causal rules by which its sequence produces its
functions–also determines its possible evolutionary trajectories. Prior research has …

Site-saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains

A Beltran, X Jiang, Y Shen, B Lehner - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Missense variants that change the amino acid sequences of proteins cause one-third of
human genetic diseases. Tens of millions of missense variants exist in the current human …

Protein codes promote selective subcellular compartmentalization

HR Kilgore, I Chinn, PG Mikhael, I Mitnikov… - Science, 2025 - science.org
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute~ 10 billion protein molecules to subcellular
compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must assemble. Here, we …

Identification and Understanding of Allostery Hotspots in Proteins: Integration of Deep Mutational Scanning and Multi-faceted Computational Analyses

Q Cui - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2025 - Elsevier
Motivated by recent deep mutational scanning (DMS) experiments, we have carried out a
diverse set of computations to better understand the distribution and contributions of …

Site saturation mutagenesis of 500 human protein domains reveals the contribution of protein destabilization to genetic disease

A Beltran, X Jiang, Y Shen, B Lehner - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Missense variants that change the amino acid sequences of proteins cause one third of
human genetic diseases. Tens of millions of missense variants exist in the current human …

For antibody sequence generative modeling, mixture models may be all you need

J Parkinson, W Wang - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Antibody therapeutic candidates must exhibit not only tight binding to their target
but also good developability properties, especially low risk of immunogenicity. Results In this …

GMMA can stabilize proteins across different functional constraints

N Daffern, KE Johansson, ZT Baumer… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Stabilizing proteins without otherwise hampering their function is a central task in protein
engineering and design. PYR1 is a plant hormone receptor that has been engineered to …

Chemical codes promote selective compartmentalization of proteins

HR Kilgore, I Chinn, PG Mikhael, I Mitnikov… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Cells have evolved mechanisms to distribute∼ 10 billion protein molecules to subcellular
compartments where diverse proteins involved in shared functions must efficiently …