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 …

Extending the application of biocatalysis to meet the challenges of drug development

PN Devine, RM Howard, R Kumar… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The pharmaceutical industry, driven by an increasing need to deliver new and more effective
medicines to patients, is increasingly turning to the use of engineered biocatalysts for both …

Machine learning in enzyme engineering

S Mazurenko, Z Prokop, J Damborsky - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enzyme engineering plays a central role in developing efficient biocatalysts for
biotechnology, biomedicine, and life sciences. Apart from classical rational design and …

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 …

Biocatalysis in the pharmaceutical industry: the need for speed

MD Truppo - ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The use of biocatalysis in the pharmaceutical industry continues to expand as a result of
increased access to enzymes and the ability to engineer those enzymes to meet the …

The challenge of predicting distal active site mutations in computational enzyme design

S Osuna - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many computational enzyme design approaches have been developed in recent years that
focus on a reduced set of key enzymatic features. Initial protocols mostly focused on the …

Computational redesign of enzymes for regio-and enantioselective hydroamination

R Li, HJ Wijma, L Song, Y Cui, M Otzen, Y Tian… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Introduction of innovative biocatalytic processes offers great promise for applications in
green chemistry. However, owing to limited catalytic performance, the enzymes harvested …

Nanoscale chemical reaction exploration with a quantum magnifying glass

KS Csizi, M Steiner, M Reiher - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Nanoscopic systems exhibit diverse molecular substructures by which they facilitate specific
functions. Theoretical models of them, which aim at describing, understanding, and …

[HTML][HTML] Enzymes revolutionize the bioproduction of value-added compounds: From enzyme discovery to special applications

B Wiltschi, T Cernava, A Dennig, MG Casas… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Competitive sustainable production in industry demands new and better biocatalysts,
optimized bioprocesses and cost-effective product recovery. Our review sheds light on the …

AlphaFold2 and deep learning for elucidating enzyme conformational flexibility and its application for design

G Casadevall, C Duran, S Osuna - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The recent success of AlphaFold2 (AF2) and other deep learning (DL) tools in accurately
predicting the folded three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins and enzymes has …