Machine learning for chemical reactions

M Meuwly - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Machine learning (ML) techniques applied to chemical reactions have a long history. The
present contribution discusses applications ranging from small molecule reaction dynamics …

Enzyme entrapment, biocatalyst immobilization without covalent attachment

HT Imam, PC Marr, AC Marr - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In entrapment an active species, which is often a catalyst, is trapped within a material by a
solid or gel forming event; thus, it becomes dispersed within the solid or semi-solid matrix …

Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase variants resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam: an evolutionary overview

CA Hobson, G Pierrat, O Tenaillon… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
First variants of the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), KPC-2 and KPC-3, have
encountered a worldwide success, particularly in K. pneumoniae isolates. These beta …

A brief history of de novo protein design: minimal, rational, and computational

DN Woolfson - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein design has come of age, but how will it mature? In the 1980s and the 1990s, the
primary motivation for de novo protein design was to test our understanding of the …

Thermal stability enhancement: Fundamental concepts of protein engineering strategies to manipulate the flexible structure

M Rahban, S Zolghadri, N Salehi, F Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the temperature by just a few degrees may lead to structural perturbation or
unfolding of the protein and consequent loss of function. The concepts of flexibility and …

New Insights into the Cooperativity and Dynamics of Dimeric Enzymes

KW Chen, TY Sun, YD Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
A survey of protein databases indicates that the majority of enzymes exist in oligomeric
forms, with about half of those found in the UniProt database being homodimeric …

Microelectronic Morphogenesis: Smart Materials with Electronics Assembling into Artificial Organisms

JS McCaskill, D Karnaushenko, M Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microelectronic morphogenesis is the creation and maintenance of complex functional
structures by microelectronic information within shape‐changing materials. Only recently …

Evolution of dynamical networks enhances catalysis in a designer enzyme

HA Bunzel, JLR Anderson, D Hilvert, VL Arcus… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Activation heat capacity is emerging as a crucial factor in enzyme thermoadaptation, as
shown by the non-Arrhenius behaviour of many natural enzymes. However, its physical …

Autonomous reaction network exploration in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

M Steiner, M Reiher - Topics in Catalysis, 2022 - Springer
Autonomous computations that rely on automated reaction network elucidation algorithms
may pave the way to make computational catalysis on a par with experimental research in …

Mechanism-Based Redesign of GAP to Activate Oncogenic Ras

D Berta, S Gehrke, K Nyíri, BG Vértessy… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ras GTPases play a crucial role in cell signaling pathways. Mutations of the Ras gene occur
in about one third of cancerous cell lines and are often associated with detrimental clinical …