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 …

Consensus Finder web tool to predict stabilizing substitutions in proteins

BJ Jones, CNE Kan, C Luo, RJ Kazlauskas - Methods in enzymology, 2020 - Elsevier
The consensus sequence approach to predicting stabilizing substitutions in proteins rests on
the notion that conserved amino acids are more likely to contribute to the stability of a protein …

Engineering and evaluation of thermostable IsPETase variants for PET degradation

S Brott, L Pfaff, J Schuricht, JN Schwarz… - Engineering in life …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a mass‐produced petroleum‐based synthetic polymer.
Enzymatic PET degradation using, for example, Ideonella sakaiensis PETase (IsPETase) …

Improving the thermostability and activity of Paenibacillus pasadenensis chitinase through semi-rational design

P Xu, ZF Ni, MH Zong, XY Ou, JG Yang… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitinase is a promising biocatalyst for chitin biotransformation in the field of recalcitrant
biomass degradation. Excellent catalytic performance is conducive to its commercial …

Assessment of the PETase conformational changes induced by poly (ethylene terephthalate) binding

CHS da Costa, AM Dos Santos… - Proteins: Structure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a bacterium strain of Ideonella sakaiensis was identified with the uncommon
ability to degrade the poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET). The PETase from I. sakaiensis …

Leveraging intrinsic flexibility to engineer enhanced enzyme catalytic activity

CS Karamitros, K Murray… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Dynamic motions of enzymes occurring on a broad range of timescales play a pivotal role in
all steps of the reaction pathway, including substrate binding, catalysis, and product release …

Revolutionizing enzyme engineering through artificial intelligence and machine learning

N Singh, S Malik, A Gupta… - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The combinatorial space of an enzyme sequence has astronomical possibilities and
exploring it with contemporary experimental techniques is arduous and often ineffective …

Improving the Thermostability and Activity of Transaminase From Aspergillus terreus by Charge-Charge Interaction

JR Cao, FF Fan, CJ Lv, HP Wang, Y Li, S Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transaminases that promote the amination of ketones into amines are an emerging class of
biocatalysts for preparing a series of drugs and their intermediates. One of the main …

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 …

Membrane protein stabilization strategies for structural and functional studies

E Errasti-Murugarren, P Bartoccioni, M Palacín - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accounting for nearly two-thirds of known druggable targets, membrane proteins are highly
relevant for cell physiology and pharmacology. In this regard, the structural determination of …