Asitedesign: a semirational algorithm for an automated enzyme design

S Roda, H Terholsen, JRH Meyer… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With advances in protein structure predictions, the number of available high-quality
structures has increased dramatically. In light of these advances, structure-based enzyme …

Combinatorial approach for exploring conformational space and activation barriers in computer-aided enzyme design

D Mondal, V Kolev, A Warshel - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computer-aided enzyme design is a field of great potential importance for biotechnological
applications, medical advances, and a fundamental understanding of enzyme action …

Motif‐directed redesign of enzyme specificity

B Borgo, JJ Havranek - Protein Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Computational protein design relies on several approximations, including the use of fixed
backbones and rotamers, to reduce protein design to a computationally tractable problem …

Computational design of novel enzymes without cofactors

MD Smith, A Zanghellini… - Protein Design: Methods …, 2014 - Springer
In this review we present a recently developed computational method to design de novo
enzymes. Starting from the three-dimensional arrangement of the transition state structure …

ProdaMatch: a fast and accurate active site matching algorithm for de novo enzyme design

S Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhu - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing enzymes with high catalytic activity solely based on computation is still a great
challenge in de novo enzyme design. Based on the complex active site model in which the …

Computational design of synthetic enzymes

V Vaissier Welborn, T Head-Gordon - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
We review the standard model for de novo computational design of enzymes, which
primarily focuses on the development of an active-site geometry, composed of protein …

Rational design of enzyme activity and enantioselectivity

Z Song, Q Zhang, W Wu, Z Pu, H Yu - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The strategy of rational design to engineer enzymes is to predict the potential mutants based
on the understanding of the relationships between protein structure and function, and …

Physics‐based enzyme design: Predicting binding affinity and catalytic activity

S Sirin, DA Pearlman… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Computational enzyme design is an emerging field that has yielded promising success
stories, but where numerous challenges remain. Accurate methods to rapidly evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] An exciting but challenging road ahead for computational enzyme design

D Baker - Protein science: a publication of the Protein Society, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent work has demonstrated that computational enzyme design can generate active
catalysts. 1–3 Although the progress is encouraging, the future will be brighter for this new …

Simultaneous use of in silico design and a correlated mutation network as a tool to efficiently guide enzyme engineering

A Nobili, Y Tao, IV Pavlidis, T van den Bergh… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In order to improve the efficiency of directed evolution experiments, in silico multiple‐
substrate clustering was combined with an analysis of the variability of natural enzymes …