Engineering functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction

RES Thomson, SE Carrera-Pacheco… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Natural proteins are often only slightly more stable in the native state than the denatured
state, and an increase in environmental temperature can easily shift the balance toward …

Tools for computational design and high-throughput screening of therapeutic enzymes

M Vasina, J Velecký, J Planas-Iglesias… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Therapeutic enzymes are valuable biopharmaceuticals in various biomedical applications.
They have been successfully applied for fibrinolysis, cancer treatment, enzyme replacement …

Design, structure and plasma binding of ancestral β-CoV scaffold antigens

D Hueting, K Schriever, R Sun, S Vlachiotis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We report the application of ancestral sequence reconstruction on coronavirus spike protein,
resulting in stable and highly soluble ancestral scaffold antigens (AnSAs). The AnSAs …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction: from chemical paleogenetics to maximum likelihood algorithms and beyond

AGA Selberg, EA Gaucher, DA Liberles - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2021 - Springer
As both a computational and an experimental endeavor, ancestral sequence reconstruction
remains a timely and important technique. Modern approaches to conduct ancestral …

Biomedical applications of microbial phenylalanine ammonia lyase: Current status and future prospects

A Kawatra, R Dhankhar, A Mohanty, P Gulati - Biochimie, 2020 - Elsevier
Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) has recently emerged as an important therapeutic
enzyme with several biomedical applications. The enzyme catabolizes l-phenylalanine to …

Efficient exploration of sequence space by sequence-guided protein engineering and design

BE Clifton, D Kozome, P Laurino - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapid growth of sequence databases over the past two decades means that protein
engineers faced with optimizing a protein for any given task will often have immediate …

Reprogramming T7RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 under Specific Lac Operon for Efficient p-Coumaric Acid Production

SSW Effendi, IS Ng - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lac operon is the standard regulator used to control the orthogonality of T7RNA polymerase
(T7RNAP) and T7 promoter in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) strain for protein expression …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering a Pseudomonas taiwanensis 4-coumarate platform for production of para-hydroxy aromatics with high yield and specificity

B Wynands, F Kofler, A Sieberichs, N da Silva… - Metabolic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aromatics are valuable bulk or fine chemicals with a myriad of important applications.
Currently, their vast majority is produced from petroleum associated with many negative …

Primary structural features, physicochemical and biological properties of two water-soluble polysaccharides extracted from the brown Tunisian seaweed Halopteris …

F Hadjkacem, J Elleuch, M Aitouguinane… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine algae are the most abundant resource in the marine environment and are still a
promising source of bioactive compounds including hydrocolloids. This study contributes to …

Polysaccharides from Moroccan green and brown seaweed and their derivatives stimulate natural defenses in olive tree leaves

M Aitouguinane, ZE Alaoui-Talibi, H Rchid, I Fendri… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aims to assess for the first time the ability of marine polysaccharides and their
derivatives to stimulate natural defenses in olive tree leaves. Alginates, ALSM, and ALCM …