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Hi Bluesky! 🦋

We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨

Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!

👨‍💻👨‍🔬 This study shows that the collaboration of dry and wet lab is fundamental to achieve the improvement so sought in biocatalysis.
A big thank you goes to the first author Mahdi, and to all the collaborators at Zymvol that participated in this project.

🧪 Demonstrated on an engineered artificial enzyme based on the Lactococcal multidrug resistance regulator (LmrR) scaffold, the study reveals how distant residues communicate with catalytic regions and their mutation can fine-tune this communication affecting functional properties.

🔗 The pipeline allows to identify distal mutation hotspots—sites distant from the active site, that can still influence enzyme functional properties (e.g. activity and thermostability)

💻 We presented an open‑source computational workflow integrating residue network analysis, allosteric pathway mapping, and a ML-based functional site prediction model.

📢📢 New paper out!

AI and networks can be used to predict distal mutations in proteins, even in artificial enzymes!
Check out the article here
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🌍 This work is the result of a great collaboration between the @roelfesgroup.bsky.social (@stratinghinst.bsky.social) at the @rug.nl and the NMR team at the @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Great work everybody!
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💡 We found that the mutations significantly modify the dynamics of the whole protein, promoting a monomeric state (instead of the usual dimer structure) and allowing a novel interaction with the reaction substrates.
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🧪 The wise use of a diamagnetic analogue (Zinc containing) of the cofactor allowed to track the changes in the structure of the enzyme in apo- and bound- state to the cofactor, as well as to the reaction substrates.
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🔬 We used NMR to rationalize the role of two mutations that increase the catalytic activity towards the Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of indoles in an artificial metalloenzyme. The catalyst is based on a copper-phenanthroline complex bound within the hydrophobic pocket of the versatile LmrR protein.
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📢 New publication alert 📢

🧪Studying enzyme conformational dynamics always hides new surprises, especially when you discover that beneficial mutations destabilize the enzyme!

Read more here ---> doi.org/10.1002/cbic...

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Still better than default MS excel settings 🤭

📢📢📢 PhD Opportunity!

Join our research group at RUG! We're seeking a motivated PhD student for a project on biocatalytic cascade processes combining natural and designer enzymes, supported by machine learning.
Click below to learn more — and feel free to share!

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Our latest publication is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!

We generated and engineered a novel artificial metalloenzyme for the enantioselective synthesis of a panel of γ-nitro-carbonyl compounds on a preparative scale.

Season's greetings from Roelfes and Mayer groups! Wishing our colleagues, collaborators, and the entire community a joyful holiday season and a prosperous New Year ahead! 🎉🎄✨🧪

Hello! I am a biochemist and protein engineer
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38836699/

Two days of very interesting talks at #NWOChains24, big thanks to everyone that stopped by my poster for the stimulating exchange of ideas. Happy to have won the poster prize! 🏆🏆

Now I can share external links without the posts being down regulated - I thought it would share this again!:)

I have compiled a list of now 100+ companies in the 'TechBio' space into a fully open database for the community.

Find here and please share if you like
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