Computational Design of Highly Efficient Cold-Adapted Enzymes with Elevated Temperature Optima

van der Ent, Florian; Yu, Shanshan; Lund, Bjarte A.; Brandsdal, Bjørn O. et al.

Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 11257-11265, 2025

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Accurate Computation of Thermodynamic Activation Parameters in the Chorismate Mutase Reaction from Empirical Valence Bond Simulations

Wilkins, Ryan Scott; Lund, Bjarte Aarmo; Isaksen, Geir Villy; Åqvist, Johan et al.

Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 451-458, 2024

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Why Do Empirical Valence Bond Simulations Yield Accurate Arrhenius Plots?

Oanca, Gabriel; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 2582-2591, 2024

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Computational design of the temperature optimum of an enzyme reaction

van der Ent, Florian; Skagseth, Susann; Lund, Bjarte A.; Socan, Jaka et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2023

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Efficient Empirical Valence Bond Simulations with GROMACS

Oanca, Gabriel; van der Ent, Florian; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 6037-6045, 2023

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Principles of Cold Adaptation of Fish Lactate Dehydrogenases Revealed by Computer Simulations of the Catalytic Reaction

Koenekoop, Lucien; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2023

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Reply to Comment on: "Computer Simulations Reveal an Entirely Entropic Activation Barrier for the Chemical Step in a Designer Enzyme"

Åqvist, Johan

Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 10007-10009, 2023

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Calculation of Heat Capacity Changes in Enzyme Catalysis and Ligand Binding

Åqvist, Johan; van der Ent, Florian

Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 6345-6353, 2022

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Computer Simulations Reveal an Entirely Entropic Activation Barrier for the Chemical Step in a Designer Enzyme

Åqvist, Johan

Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 1452-1460, 2022

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Structure and Mechanism of a Cold-Adapted Bacterial Lipase

van der Ent, Florian; Lund, Bjarte A.; Svalberg, Linn; Purg, Miha et al.

Part of Biochemistry, p. 933-942, 2022

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The Activation Parameters of a Cold-Adapted Short Chain Dehydrogenase Are Insensitive to Enzyme Oligomerization

Koenekoop, Lucien; van der Ent, Florian; Purg, Miha; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Biochemistry, p. 514-522, 2022

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3,4-Dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones as Antagonists of the Human A_2B Adenosine Receptor: Optimization, Structure–Activity Relationship Studies, and Enantiospecific Recognition

Majellaro, María; Jespers, Willem; Crespo, Abel; Núñez, María J. et al.

Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 458-480, 2021

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Deciphering conformational selectivity in the A(2A) adenosine G protein-coupled receptor by free energy simulations

Jespers, Willem; Heitman, Laura H.; IJzerman, Adriaan P.; Sotelo, Eddy et al.

Part of PloS Computational Biology, 2021

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Structural Basis of Inhibition of Human Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP) by Benzopyran-based Inhibitors

Reddy Vanga, Sudarsana; Åqvist, Johan; Gutiérrez-de-Terán, Hugo

Part of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021

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Structure and mechanism of a phage-encoded SAM lyase revises catalytic function of enzyme family

Guo, Xiaohu; Söderholm, Annika; Kanchugal Puttaswamy, Sandesh; Isaksen, Geir V et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2021

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Transition States for Psychrophilic and Mesophilic (R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase-Catalyzed Hydride Transfer a Sub-zero Temperatures

Machado, Teresa F. G.; Purg, Miha; Åqvist, Johan; da Silva, Rafael G.

Part of Biochemistry, p. 2186-2194, 2021

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Computer simulations explain the anomalous temperature optimum in a cold-adapted enzyme

Socan, Jaka; Purg, Miha; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Nature Communications, 2020

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Dissecting the Mechanism of (R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase by Kinetic Isotope Effects, Protein Crystallography, and Computational Chemistry

Machado, Teresa F. G.; Purg, Miha; McMahon, Stephen A.; Read, Benjamin J. et al.

Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 15019-15032, 2020

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Evolution of Angiotensin Peptides and Peptidomimetics as Angiotensin II Receptor Type 2 (AT2) Receptor Agonists

Vasile, Silvana; Hallberg, Anders; Sallander, Jessica; Hallberg, Mathias et al.

Part of Biomolecules, 2020

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Hidden conformational states and strange temperature optima in enzyme catalysis

Åqvist, Johan; Sočan, Jaka; Purg, Miha

Part of Biochemistry, p. 3844-3855, 2020

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Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics as Inhibitors of Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP)

Barlow, Nicholas; Reddy Vanga, Sudarsana; Sävmarker, Jonas; Sandström, Anja et al.

Part of RSC Medicinal chemistry, p. 234-244, 2020

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Synthesis, Evaluation and Proposed Binding Pose of Substituted Spiro-Oxindole Dihydroquinazolinones as IRAP Inhibitors

Engen, Karin; Reddy Vanga, Sudarsana; Lundbäck, Thomas; Agalo, Faith et al.

Part of ChemistryOpen, p. 325-337, 2020

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X-Ray Crystallography and Free Energy Calculations Reveal the Binding Mechanism of A(2A) Adenosine Receptor Antagonists

Jespers, Willem; Verdon, Gregory; Azuaje, Jhonny; Majellaro, Maria et al.

Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, p. 16536-16543, 2020

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A Series of Analogues to the AT₂R Prototype Antagonist C38 Allow Fine Tuning of the Previously Reported Antagonist Binding Mode

Isaksson, Rebecka; Lindman, Jens; Wannberg, Johan; Sallander, Jessica et al.

Part of ChemistryOpen, p. 114-125, 2019

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Free energy calculations of RNA interactions

Lind, Christoffer; Esguerra, Mauricio; Jespers, Willem; Satpati, Priyadarshi et al.

Part of Methods, p. 85-95, 2019

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Inhibition of translation termination by small molecules targeting ribosomal release factors

Ge, Xueliang; Oliveira, Ana; Hjort, Karin; Bergfors, Terese et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2019

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Principles of tRNA(Ala) Selection by Alanyl-tRNA Synthetase Based on the Critical G3.U70 Base Pair

Kumar, Amit; Åqvist, Johan; Satpati, Priyadarshi

Part of ACS Omega, p. 15539-15548, 2019

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QligFEP: an automated workflow for small molecule free energy calculations in Q

Jespers, Willem; Esguerra, Mauricio; Åqvist, Johan; Gutiérrez-de-Terán, Hugo

Part of Journal of Cheminformatics, 2019

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QresFEP: An Automated Protocol for Free Energy Calculations of Protein Mutations in Q

Jespers, Willem; Isaksen, Geir V; Andberg, Tor A H; Vasile, Silvana et al.

Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 5461-5473, 2019

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Towards Rational Computational Engineering of Psychrophilic Enzymes

Socan, Jaka; Isaksen, Geir Villy; Brandsdal, Björn Olav; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Scientific Reports, 2019

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Catalytic Adaptation of Psychrophilic Elastase

Socan, Jaka; Kazemi, Masoud; Isaksen, Geir Villy; Brandsdal, Bjorn Olav et al.

Part of Biochemistry, p. 2984-2993, 2018

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Complementary charge-based interaction between the ribosomal-stalk protein L7/12 and IF2 is the key to rapid subunit association

Ge, Xueliang; Mandava, Chandra Sekhar; Lind, Christoffer; Åqvist, Johan et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 4649-4654, 2018

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Elucidation of the Binding Mode of the Carboxyterminal Region of Peptide YY to the Human Y-₂ Receptor

Xu, Bo; Vasile, Silvana; Østergaard, Søren; Paulsson, Johan F. et al.

Part of Molecular Pharmacology, p. 323-334, 2018

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Mechanistic alternatives for peptide bond formation on the ribosome

Kazemi, Masoud; Socan, Jaka; Himo, Fahmi; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 5345-5354, 2018

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Molecular mechanisms in the selectivity of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Shamsudin, Yasmin; Gutiérrez-de-Terán, Hugo; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Biochemistry, p. 1236-1248, 2018

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Q6: A comprehensive toolkit for empirical valence bond and related free energy calculations

Bauer, Paul; Barrozo, Alexandre; Purg, Miha; Amrein, Beat Anton et al.

Part of SoftwareX, p. 388-395, 2018

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Structural Basis of Inhibition of Human Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP) by Aryl Sulfonamides

Reddy Vanga, Sudarsana; Sävmarker, Jonas; Ng, Leelee; Larhed, Mats et al.

Part of ACS Omega, p. 4509-4521, 2018

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A close-up view of codon selection in eukaryotic initiation

Lind, Christoffer; Esguerra, Mauricio; Åqvist, Johan

Part of RNA Biology, p. 815-819, 2017

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Cold Adaptation of Triosephosphate Isomerase

Åqvist, Johan

Part of Biochemistry, p. 4169-4176, 2017

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Effect of Nitrogen Atom Substitution in A(3) Adenosine Receptor Binding: N-(4,6-Diarylpyridin-2-yl)acetamides as Potent and Selective Antagonists

Azuaje, Jhonny; Jespers, Willem; Yaziji, Vicente; Mallo, Ana et al.

Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 7502-7511, 2017

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Origin of the omnipotence of eukaryotic release factor 1

Lind, Christoffer; Oliveira, Ana; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Nature Communications, 2017

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Probing the Time Dependency of Cyclooxygenase-1 Inhibitors by Computer Simulations

Shamsudin, Yasmin; Gutiérrez-de-Terán, Hugo; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Biochemistry, p. 1911-1920, 2017

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Structure-Based Design of Potent and Selective Ligands at the Four Adenosine Receptors

Jespers, Willem; Oliveira, Ana; Prieto-Diaz, Ruben; Majellaro, Maria et al.

Part of Molecules, 2017

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The GPR139 reference agonists 1a and 7c, and tryptophan and phenylalanine share a common binding site

Nohr, Anne Cathrine; Jespers, Willem; Shehata, Mohamed A.; Floryan, Leonard et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2017

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Thermodynamics of the Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase Reaction Revealed by Computer Simulations

Isaksen, Geir Villy; Åqvist, Johan; Brandsdal, Björn Olav

Part of Biochemistry, p. 306-312, 2017

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Aryl Sulfonamide Inhibitors of Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase Enhance Spine Density in Primary Hippocampal Neuron Cultures

Diwakarla, Shanti; Nylander, Erik; Grönbladh, Alfhild; Vanga, Sudarsana Reddy et al.

Part of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, p. 1383-1392, 2016

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Binding to and Inhibition of Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP) by Macrocyclic Disulfides Enhances Spine Density

Diwakarla, Shanti; Nylander, Erik; Grönbladh, Alfhild; Reddy Vanga, Sudarsana et al.

Part of Molecular Pharmacology, p. 413-424, 2016

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Computer Simulations Reveal Substrate Specificity of Glycosidic Bond Cleavage in Native and Mutant Human Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase

Isaksen, Geir Villy; Hopmann, Kathrin Helen; Åqvist, Johan; Brandsdal, Björn Olav

Part of Biochemistry, p. 2153-2162, 2016

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Conserved Motifs in Different Classes of GTPases Dictate their Specific Modes of Catalysis

Aqvist, Johan; Kamerlin, Shina C. L.

Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 1737-1743, 2016

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Enzyme catalysis by entropy without Circe effect

Kazemi, Masoud; Himo, Fahmi; Åqvist, Johan

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 2406-2411, 2016

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