Dual Engineering of the Hydrophobic Core and Functional Loop Reshapes the Conformational Energy Landscape for Significantly Enhanced Xylanase Activity and Thermostability.
The industrial application of enzyme catalysts is often constrained by the trade-off between thermostability and catalytic activity. Here, a region-focused engineering strategy was applied to a thermophilic GH10 xylanase to simultaneously improve both properties. The strategy integrates qProtein-guided hydrophobic clus...