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EnzVolNet

COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTION OF ENZYME VARIANTS THROUGH CONFORMATIONAL NETWORKS

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Project "EnzVolNet" data sheet

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Coordinator
UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA 

Organization address
address: PLACA SANT DOMENEC 3
city: GIRONA
postcode: 17004
website: www.udg.es

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 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Project website http://iqcc.udg.edu/wordpress/2017/01/28/marie-curie-fellowship-awarded-javier-iglesias-silvia-osuna/
 Total cost 158˙121 €
 EC max contribution 158˙121 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-05-01   to  2019-04-30

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1    UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA ES (GIRONA) coordinator 158˙121.00

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 Project objective

Natural enzymes have evolved to perform their functions under complex selective pressures, being capable of accelerating reactions by several orders of magnitude. In particular, heteromeric enzyme complexes catalyze an enormous array of useful reactions that are often allosterically regulated by different protein partners. Unfortunately, the underlying physical principles of this regulation are still under debate, which makes the alteration of enzyme structure towards useful isolated subunits a tremendous challenge for modern chemical biology. Exploitation of isolated enzyme subunits, however, is advantageous for biosynthetic applications as it reduces the metabolic stress on the host cell and greatly simplifies efforts to engineer specific properties of the enzyme. Current approaches to alter natural enzyme complexes are based on the evaluation of thousands of variants, which make them economically unviable and the resulting catalytic efficiencies lag far behind their natural counterparts. The revolutionary nature of EnzVolNet relies on the application of conformational network models (e.g Markov State Models) to extract the essential functional protein dynamics and key conformational states, reducing the complexity of the enzyme design paradigm and completely reformulating previous computational design approaches. Initial mutations are extracted from costly random mutagenesis experiments and chemoinformatic tools are used to identify beneficial mutations leading to more proficient enzymes. This new strategy will be applied to develop stand-alone enzymes from heteromeric protein complexes, with advantageous biosynthetic properties and improve activity and substrate scope. Experimental evaluation of our computational predictions will finally elucidate the potential of the present approach for mimicking Nature’s rules of evolution.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2018 Miguel A. Maria-Solano, Eila Serrano-Hervás, Adrian Romero-Rivera, Javier Iglesias-Fernández, Sílvia Osuna
Role of conformational dynamics in the evolution of novel enzyme function
published pages: 6622-6634, ISSN: 1359-7345, DOI: 10.1039/c8cc02426j
Chemical Communications 54/50 2019-09-17

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