Loop dynamics and the evolution of enzyme activity

M Corbella, GP Pinto, SCL Kamerlin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
In the early 2000s, Tawfik presented his 'New View'on enzyme evolution, highlighting the
role of conformational plasticity in expanding the functional diversity of limited repertoires of …

Ab initio quantum chemical and mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods for studying enzymatic catalysis

RA Friesner, V Guallar - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We describe large scale ab initio quantum chemical and mixed quantum
mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods for studying enzymatic reactions. First …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic 3D proteomes reveal protein functional alterations at high resolution in situ

V Cappelletti, T Hauser, I Piazza, M Pepelnjak… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Biological processes are regulated by intermolecular interactions and chemical
modifications that do not affect protein levels, thus escaping detection in classical proteomic …

[HTML][HTML] De novo enzyme design using Rosetta3

F Richter, A Leaver-Fay, SD Khare, S Bjelic, D Baker - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The Rosetta de novo enzyme design protocol has been used to design enzyme catalysts for
a variety of chemical reactions, and in principle can be applied to any arbitrary chemical …

Mechanisms and free energies of enzymatic reactions

J Gao, S Ma, DT Major, K Nam, J Pu… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Most enzymatic reactions have very large and remarkably similar apparent second-order
rate constants, kcat/KM, at mean values of about 107 M-1 s-1 with kcat in the range of 10 …

Triosephosphate isomerase: a highly evolved biocatalyst

RK Wierenga, EG Kapetaniou… - Cellular and molecular life …, 2010 - Springer
Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) is a perfectly evolved enzyme which very fast
interconverts dihydroxyacetone phosphate and d-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. Its catalytic …

[HTML][HTML] The self-inhibitory nature of metabolic networks and its alleviation through compartmentalization

MT Alam, V Olin-Sandoval, A Stincone… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Metabolites can inhibit the enzymes that generate them. To explore the general nature of
metabolic self-inhibition, we surveyed enzymological data accrued from a century of …

Computational design of a biologically active enzyme

MA Dwyer, LL Looger, HW Hellinga - Science, 2004 - science.org
Rational design of enzymes is a stringent test of our understanding of protein chemistry and
has numerous potential applications. Here, we present and experimentally validate the …

A role for flexible loops in enzyme catalysis

MM Malabanan, TL Amyes, JP Richard - Current opinion in structural …, 2010 - Elsevier
Triosephosphate isomerase (TIM), glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, and orotidine 5′-
monophosphate decarboxylase each use the binding energy from the interaction of …

Loop motion in triosephosphate isomerase is not a simple open and shut case

Q Liao, Y Kulkarni, U Sengupta, D Petrović… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes are crucial for the catalytic action of many enzymes. A prototypical
and well-studied example is loop opening and closure in triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) …