Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21124375›Full record

ReviewNature chemistry2010

Designing artificial enzymes by intuition and computation.

Vikas Nanda, Ronald L Koder

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Review in Nature chemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Integration of Adenylate Kinase 1 with Its Peptide Conformational Imprint.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  19. A bound iron porphyrin is redox active in hybrid bacterial reaction centers modified to possess a four-helix bundle domain.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Vikas NandaRobert Wood Johnson Medical School - UMDNJ Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, 679 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. nanda@cabm.rutgers.edu
Ronald L Koder

Funding

TNC FUNCTION IN APOPTOTIC ANTIGEN DRIVEN AUTOIMMUNITYG12RR003060 · NCRR · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI STEINBERG, MARK L · 1985 to 2011
$26.1M
900 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Structural BiologyP41GM066354 · NIGMS · NEW YORK STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CENTER · PI COWBURN, DAVID · 2002 to 2006
$4.7M
Computational Design of a Synthetic Extracellular MatrixDP2OD006478 · OD · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI NANDA, VIKAS · 2009 to 2009
$2.3M
NCRR NIH HHS 5G12 RR03060NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM-66354NIH HHS 1-DP2-OD006478-01NIH HHS DP2 OD006478
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rational design of artificial enzymes, either by applying physico-chemical intuition of protein structure and function or with the aid of computational methods, is a promising area of research with the potential to tremendously impact medicine, industrial chemistry and energy production. Designed proteins also provide a powerful platform for dissecting enzyme mechanisms of natural systems. Artificial enzymes have come a long way from simple α-helical peptide catalysts to proteins that facilitate multistep chemical reactions designed by state-of-the-art computational methods. Looking forward, we examine strategies employed by natural enzymes that could be used to improve the speed and selectivity of artificial catalysts.

Indexed as

BiocatalysisCatalytic DomainComputational BiologyEnzymesModels, MolecularProtein Structure, TertiaryEnzymes

Identifiers

PMID21124375
PMCPMC3443871

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