Reposted by Olive Laprévote
Excited to share our latest with @birtehoecker.bsky.social: CANVAS, a de novo enzyme design strategy that builds active sites by adding tailored lids to minimal TIM barrels. Several designs reached kcat values of 13–26 s⁻¹, on par with the median natural enzyme.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Customizing the structure of minimal TIM barrels to craft efficient de novo enzymes - Nature Chemical Biology
The TIM barrel is nature’s most versatile enzyme fold, yet de novo variants lack functional active sites. Minimal de novo TIM barrels have now been converted into enzymes by designing structural lids ...