Perspective on the current state-of-the-art of quantum computing for drug discovery applications

NS Blunt, J Camps, O Crawford, R Izsák… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry is an essential tool in the pharmaceutical industry. Quantum
computing is a fast evolving technology that promises to completely shift the computational …

The quantum chemical cluster approach in biocatalysis

X Sheng, F Himo - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The quantum chemical cluster approach has been used for modeling enzyme
active sites and reaction mechanisms for more than two decades. In this methodology, a …

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 …

Molecular insights into the regioselectivity of the fe (ii)/2-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase-catalyzed c–h hydroxylation of amino acids

L Wu, J An, X Jing, CC Chen, L Dai, Y Xu, W Liu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
l-Isoleucine dioxygenase (IDO) directly catalyzes the C–H bond hydroxylation of several
hydrophobic aliphatic amino acids. However, the ambiguous selectivity of IDO prevents its …

Application of molecular dynamics simulation in the field of food enzymes: Improving the thermal-stability and catalytic ability

Z Huang, D Ni, Z Chen, Y Zhu, W Zhang… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Enzymes can produce high-quality food with low pollution, high function, high acceptability,
and medical aid. However, most enzymes, in their native form, do not meet the industrial …

Stereoselective promiscuous reactions catalyzed by lipases

A Patti, C Sanfilippo - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ability of lipases to display activity beyond their physiological reactions, so-called
“catalytic promiscuity”, has gained increasing interest in the last two decades as an …

A novel hybrid biocatalyst from immobilized Eversa® Transform 2.0 lipase and its application in biolubricant synthesis

I Germano de Sousa, A Valério Chaves… - Biocatalysis and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, a Taguchi experimental design was used for optimzing the immobilization of
the lipase Eversa® Transform 2.0 (EVS) onto a hybrid support consisting of chitosan (CHI) …

Understanding the effectiveness of enzyme pre-reaction state by a quantum-based machine learning model

S Luo, L Liu, CJ Lyu, B Sim, Y Liu, H Gong… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Prediction of enzymatic stereochemistry is a significant challenge in computational chemistry
because of targeting very small energy gaps in highly complicated macromolecular systems …

Review of glucose oxidase as a feed additive: Production, engineering, applications, growth-promoting mechanisms, and outlook

Z Liang, Y Yan, W Zhang, H Luo, B Yao… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The regulation and prohibition of antibiotics used as growth promoters (AGP) in the feed
field are increasing because they cause antimicrobial resistance and drug residue issues …

β-Galactosidase: a traditional enzyme given multiple roles through protein engineering

P Liu, Y Chen, C Ma, J Ouyang… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract β-Galactosidases are crucial carbohydrate-active enzymes that naturally catalyze
the hydrolysis of galactoside bonds in oligo-and disaccharides. These enzymes are …