Loop dynamics and the evolution of enzyme activity

M Corbella, GP Pinto, SCL Kamerlin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
In the early 2000s, Tawfik presented his 'New View'on enzyme evolution, highlighting the
role of conformational plasticity in expanding the functional diversity of limited repertoires of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Illuminating G-protein-coupling selectivity of GPCRs

A Inoue, F Raimondi, FMN Kadji, G Singh, T Kishi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Heterotrimetic G proteins consist of four subfamilies (G s, G i/o, G q/11, and G 12/13) that
mediate signaling via G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), principally by receptors binding …

Flexibility regulation of loops surrounding the tunnel entrance in cytochrome P450 enhanced substrate access substantially

Z Li, S Meng, K Nie, U Schwaneberg, MD Davari… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the engineering of flexible loops to improve enzyme properties has gained
attention in biocatalysis. Herein, we report a loop engineering strategy to improve the …

An adaptable water-soluble molecular boat for selective separation of phenanthrene from isomeric anthracene

AB Sainaba, M Venkateswarulu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Anthracene crude oil is a common source of phenanthrene for its industrial use. The
isolation of phenanthrene from this source is a challenging task due to very similar physical …

Decrypting Allostery in Membrane-Bound K-Ras4B Using Complementary In Silico Approaches Based on Unbiased Molecular Dynamics Simulations

M Castelli, F Marchetti, S Osuna… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein functions are dynamically regulated by allostery, which enables conformational
communication even between faraway residues, and expresses itself in many forms, akin to …

Overcoming universal restrictions on metal selectivity by protein design

TS Choi, FA Tezcan - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Selective metal coordination is central to the functions of metalloproteins:, each
metalloprotein must pair with its cognate metallocofactor to fulfil its biological role. However …

Role of distal sites in enzyme engineering

J Gu, Y Xu, Y Nie - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
The limitations associated with natural enzyme catalysis have triggered the rise of the field of
protein engineering. Traditional rational design was based on the analysis of protein …

Benchmarking the accuracy of AlphaFold 2 in loop structure prediction

AO Stevens, Y He - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The inhibition of protein–protein interactions is a growing strategy in drug development. In
addition to structured regions, many protein loop regions are involved in protein–protein …

Enzyme fusions in biocatalysis: coupling reactions by pairing enzymes

FS Aalbers, MW Fraaije - ChemBioChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One approach to bringing enzymes together for multienzyme biocatalysis is genetic fusion.
This enables the production of multifunctional enzymes that can be used for whole‐cell …