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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2026

Enhancing Enzyme Activity With Mutation Combinations Guided by Few-Shot Learning and Causal Inference.

Lin Guo, Xiaoguang Yan, Yali Lu, Shengxin Nie, Mingyue Ge, Yukun Li, Weiguo Li, Xiaochun Zhang, Dongmei Liang, Yihan Zhao and 6 more

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Lin GuoMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1851-3069
Xiaoguang YanState Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Yali LuZhejiang Institute of Tianjin University, Shaoxing, China.
Shengxin NieState Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Mingyue GeState Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Yukun LiZhejiang Institute of Tianjin University, Shaoxing, China.
Weiguo LiState Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Xiaochun ZhangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Dongmei LiangZhejiang Institute of Tianjin University, Shaoxing, China.
Yihan ZhaoZhejiang Institute of Tianjin University, Shaoxing, China.
Hongxiao TanZhejiang Institute of Tianjin University, Shaoxing, China.
Xiling ChenBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shilong FanBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yefeng TangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6223-0608
Jianjun QiaoState Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0334-439X
Boxue TianMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Funding

Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure 041500002Creative Research Groups of China 21621004National Key R&D Program of China 2020YFA0907900National Natural Science Foundation of China 22473067National Natural Science Foundation of China 32300055Science Fund for Creative Research Groups 21621004Tsinghua-Peking University Center for Life Sciences 20111770319Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program 20241080046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing enzyme sequences to enhance product yield represents a fundamental challenge in metabolic engineering. Here, we established a workflow that integrates computational predictions with efficient experimental iteration to obtain outsized gains in product yield. Based on causal inference and examination of published datasets, we realized and ultimately experimentally confirmed that in vivo unit yield (yield/expression) can serve as an attractive surrogate for aqueous k

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Machine LearningMutationModels, MolecularProtein Engineeringcausal inferencemutagenesisphysics‐inspired few‐shot learningprotein designprotein language models

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PMID42329188
PMCPMC13502649

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