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ReviewNature communications2024

Automated in vivo enzyme engineering accelerates biocatalyst optimization.

Enrico Orsi, Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski, Stephan Noack, Pablo I Nikel, Steffen N Lindner

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Review in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  10. Systematic design and evaluation of artificial COSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  11. A super protein evolution engine.Nature chemical biology · 2025
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  12. Directed evolution of hydrocarbon-producing enzymes.Biotechnology for biofuels and bioproducts · 2025
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  14. Structural Homology Fails to Predict Secretion Efficiency inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Enrico OrsiThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4741-0344
Lennart Schada von BorzyskowskiInstitute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-4572
Stephan NoackInstitute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9784-3626
Pablo I NikelThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-7481
Steffen N LindnerMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. steffen.lindner@charite.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3226-3043

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 031B1028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Achieving cost-competitive bio-based processes requires development of stable and selective biocatalysts. Their realization through in vitro enzyme characterization and engineering is mostly low throughput and labor-intensive. Therefore, strategies for increasing throughput while diminishing manual labor are gaining momentum, such as in vivo screening and evolution campaigns. Computational tools like machine learning further support enzyme engineering efforts by widening the explorable design space. Here, we propose an integrated solution to enzyme engineering challenges whereby ML-guided, automated workflows (including library generation, implementation of hypermutation systems, adapted laboratory evolution, and in vivo growth-coupled selection) could be realized to accelerate pipelines towards superior biocatalysts.

Indexed as

BiocatalysisProtein EngineeringAutomationDirected Molecular EvolutionEnzymesGene LibraryMachine LearningEnzymes

Identifiers

PMID38658554
PMCPMC11043082

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