De novo design of cysteine proteases
Hojae Choi, Magnus S. Bauer, Brian Coventry, Preetham Venkatesh, An‐Qi Chen, Donghyo Kim, Asim K. Bera, Alex Kang, Hannah Nguyen, Shayan Sadre, Justin A. Decarreau, Emily Joyce, Bhanumathi Shankaran, Tuscan Rock Thompson, Gabriel Greenstein, , David A. Baker
This study designs de novo cysteine proteases with high activity and structural novelty, achieving 19% success rate and up to 3 x 10^7 rate enhancement over background reactions.
Nature · Oct 14, 2026Peer-reviewedBiochemistry