The crucial role of methodology development in directed evolution of selective enzymes

G Qu, A Li, CG Acevedo‐Rocha, Z Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Directed evolution of stereo‐, regio‐, and chemoselective enzymes constitutes a unique way
to generate biocatalysts for synthetically interesting transformations in organic chemistry and …

Utility of B-factors in protein science: interpreting rigidity, flexibility, and internal motion and engineering thermostability

Z Sun, Q Liu, G Qu, Y Feng, MT Reetz - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The term B-factor, sometimes called the Debye–Waller factor, temperature factor, or atomic
displacement parameter, is used in protein crystallography to describe the attenuation of X …

Engineered enzymes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other high-value products

MT Reetz, G Qu, Z Sun - Nature Synthesis, 2024 - nature.com
Catalysis has a central role in organic synthetic methodology, especially in stereoselective
reactions. In many reactions, enantioselectivity is made possible through the use of chiral …

Role of conformational dynamics in the evolution of novel enzyme function

MA Maria-Solano, E Serrano-Hervás… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The free energy landscape concept that describes enzymes as an ensemble of differently
populated conformational sub-states in dynamic equilibrium is key for evaluating enzyme …

P450-catalyzed regio-and diastereoselective steroid hydroxylation: efficient directed evolution enabled by mutability landscaping

CG Acevedo-Rocha, CG Gamble, R Lonsdale, A Li… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases play a crucial role in the biosynthesis of many natural
products and in the human metabolism of numerous pharmaceuticals. This has inspired …

Alcohol dehydrogenases as catalysts in organic synthesis

AS de Miranda, CDF Milagre, F Hollmann - Frontiers in Catalysis, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) have become important catalysts for stereoselective
oxidation and reduction reactions of alcohols, aldehydes and ketones. The aim of this …

Reshaping substrate-binding pocket of leucine dehydrogenase for bidirectionally accessing structurally diverse substrates

T Wu, Y Wang, N Zhang, D Yin, Y Xu, Y Nie, X Mu - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Steric hindrance modification-based pocket reshaping is an effective approach for enzyme–
substrate acceptance evolution. However, previous studies were limited to using the …

Mutability‐Landscape‐Guided Engineering of l‐Threonine Aldolase Revealing the Prelog Rule in Mediating Diastereoselectivity of C−C Bond Formation

W Zheng, Z Pu, L Xiao, G Xu, L Yang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract l‐threonine aldolase (LTA) catalyzes C− C bond synthesis with moderate
diastereoselectivity. In this study, with LTA from Cellulosilyticum sp (CpLTA) as an object, a …

Modeling enzymatic enantioselectivity using quantum chemical methodology

X Sheng, M Kazemi, F Planas, F Himo - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
The computational study of enantioselective reactions is a challenging task that requires
high accuracy, as very small energy differences have to be reproduced. Quantum chemical …

[PDF][PDF] 蛋白质工程: 从定向进化到计算设计

曲戈, 朱彤, 蒋迎迎, 吴边, 孙周通 - 生物工程学报, 2019 - researchgate.net
定向进化通过建立突变体文库与高通量筛选方法, 快速提升蛋白的特定性质,
是目前蛋白质工程最为常用的蛋白质设计改造策略. 近十年随着计算机运算能力大幅提升以及 …