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 …

Computational tools for designing and engineering enzymes

J Damborsky, J Brezovsky - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Concepts of enzyme engineering.•Novelty in silico methods and
tools.•Bioinformatics for stability prediction.•Molecular modelling for mechanistic studies.•De …

Protein sequence design with a learned potential

N Anand, R Eguchi, II Mathews, CP Perez… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The task of protein sequence design is central to nearly all rational protein engineering
problems, and enormous effort has gone into the development of energy functions to guide …

De novo design of a transmembrane Zn2+-transporting four-helix bundle

NH Joh, T Wang, MP Bhate, R Acharya, Y Wu, M Grabe… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The design of functional membrane proteins from first principles represents a grand
challenge in chemistry and structural biology. Here, we report the design of a membrane …

OSPREY: protein design with ensembles, flexibility, and provable algorithms

P Gainza, KE Roberts, I Georgiev, RH Lilien… - Methods in …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed a suite of protein redesign algorithms that improves realistic in silico
modeling of proteins. These algorithms are based on three characteristics that make them …

OSPREY 3.0: Open‐source protein redesign for you, with powerful new features

MA Hallen, JW Martin, A Ojewole… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present osprey 3.0, a new and greatly improved release of the osprey protein design
software. Osprey 3.0 features a convenient new Python interface, which greatly improves its …

qFit 3: Protein and ligand multiconformer modeling for X‐ray crystallographic and single‐particle cryo‐EM density maps

BT Riley, SA Wankowicz, SHP de Oliveira… - Protein …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
New X‐ray crystallography and cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) approaches yield vast
amounts of structural data from dynamic proteins and their complexes. Modeling the full …

Exposing hidden alternative backbone conformations in X-ray crystallography using qFit

DA Keedy, JS Fraser… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Proteins must move between different conformations of their native ensemble to perform
their functions. Crystal structures obtained from high-resolution X-ray diffraction data reflect …

[HTML][HTML] Computational protein design as an optimization problem

D Allouche, I André, S Barbe, J Davies, S de Givry… - Artificial Intelligence, 2014 - Elsevier
Proteins are chains of simple molecules called amino acids. The three-dimensional shape of
a protein and its amino acid composition define its biological function. Over millions of years …

Revolutionizing enzyme engineering through artificial intelligence and machine learning

N Singh, S Malik, A Gupta… - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The combinatorial space of an enzyme sequence has astronomical possibilities and
exploring it with contemporary experimental techniques is arduous and often ineffective …