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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Replicating PET Hydrolytic Activity by Positioning Active Sites with Smaller Synthetic Protein Scaffolds.

Yujing Ding, Shanshan Zhang, Xian Kong, Henry Hess, Yifei Zhang

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors.

Yujing DingState Key Laboratory of Chemical Resources Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, P. R. China.
Shanshan ZhangState Key Laboratory of Chemical Resources Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, P. R. China.
Xian KongSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. China.
Henry HessDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 351L Engineering Terrace, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
Yifei ZhangState Key Laboratory of Chemical Resources Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-611X

Funding

China Petrochemical Corporation 223260Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities QNTD2023-01Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau 2023A04J1364National Nature Science Foundation of China 32371325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolutionary constraints significantly limit the diversity of naturally occurring enzymes, thereby reducing the sequence repertoire available for enzyme discovery and engineering. Recent breakthroughs in protein structure prediction and de novo design, powered by artificial intelligence, now enable to create enzymes with desired functions without solely relying on traditional genome mining. Here, a computational strategy is demonstrated for creating new-to-nature polyethylene terephthalate hydrolases (PET hydrolases) by leveraging the known catalytic mechanisms and implementing multiple deep learning algorithms and molecular computations. This strategy includes the extraction of functional motifs from a template enzyme (here leaf-branch compost cutinase, LCC, is used), regeneration of new protein sequences, computational screening, experimental validation, and sequence refinement. PET hydrolytic activity is successfully replicated with designer enzymes that are at least 30% shorter in sequence length than LCC. Among them, RsPETase1 stands out due to its robust expressibility. It exhibits comparable catalytic efficiency (k

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Carboxylic Ester HydrolasesCatalytic DomainHydrolasesPolyethylene TerephthalatesProtein EngineeringHydrolysisCarboxylic Ester HydrolasescutinaseHydrolasesPolyethylene Terephthalatesartificial enzymecomputational enzyme designisoenzyme diversitynew‐to‐nature PET hydrolasesmall enzyme

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