Most enzymes operate at room temperature, under neutral aqueous conditions, and in the absence of substrate functional-group protection. In organic ... to non-biological synthetic methods, but ...

Bespoke protein catalysts Catalysts, both biological and synthetic, are the workhorses of chemistry ... relative to most enzymes; their excellent thermal and organic solvent stability can allow ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, UCSF and the University of Pittsburgh have developed a new workflow for designing enzymes from scratch, paving the way toward more efficient, powerful and ...

“Enzymes allow you to make completely different ... “He was one of the leaders in synthetic organic chemistry in the 1980s and ’90s, then decided to teach himself biology and became one ...

Pericyclases catalyse a special class of organic reactions called pericyclic reactions ... This increases the potential of these enzymes in synthetic chemistry even further, and provides ...

“Finding that the enzymes were so efficient at this ... molecular biology to solve recalcitrant problems in synthetic organic chemistry.” ...

Synthetic biology is ... of sustaining life by actually being an enzyme -- and that's just crazy," Hecht said. This work could have major implications for industry, said Justin Siegel, an assistant ...

but we have also shown that the enzyme can perform Diels-Alder reactions that are challenging to perform using synthetic chemistry. The work opens up a raft of possibilities for making new useful ...

Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene ... The study appeared in the journal Green Chemistry. Natural rubber is used to make polyisoprene, which in turn enables the production ...

A multidisciplinary collaboration has opened up a huge number of possibilities in synthetic chemistry through developing the technique ... a stronger antibiotic rapidly emerged which inhibits a ...