Search Results - "Gado, Japheth E."
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Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-10-2020)“…Plastics pollution represents a global environmental crisis. In response, microbes are evolving the capacity to utilize synthetic polymers as carbon and energy…”
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Sourcing thermotolerant poly(ethylene terephthalate) hydrolase scaffolds from natural diversity
Published in Nature communications (21-12-2022)“…Enzymatic deconstruction of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is under intense investigation, given the ability of hydrolase enzymes to depolymerize PET to…”
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Natural diversity screening, assay development, and characterization of nylon-6 enzymatic depolymerization
Published in Nature communications (09-02-2024)“…Successes in biocatalytic polyester recycling have raised the possibility of deconstructing alternative polymers enzymatically, with polyamide (PA) being a…”
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Improving Enzyme Optimum Temperature Prediction with Resampling Strategies and Ensemble Learning
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (24-08-2020)“…Accurate prediction of the optimal catalytic temperature (T opt) of enzymes is vital in biotechnology, as enzymes with high T opt values are desired for…”
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Machine learning reveals sequence-function relationships in family 7 glycoside hydrolases
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-08-2021)“…Family 7 glycoside hydrolases (GH7) are among the principal enzymes for cellulose degradation in nature and industrially. These enzymes are often bimodular,…”
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Enabling microbial syringol conversion through structure-guided protein engineering
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-07-2019)“…Microbial conversion of aromatic compounds is an emerging and promising strategy for valorization of the plant biopolymer lignin. A critical and often…”
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Enzyme kinetics by GH7 cellobiohydrolases on chromogenic substrates is dictated by non‐productive binding: insights from crystal structures and MD simulation
Published in The FEBS journal (01-01-2023)“…Cellobiohydrolases (CBHs) in the glycoside hydrolase family 7 (GH7) (EC3.2.1.176) are the major cellulose degrading enzymes both in industrial settings and in…”
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