Tag: enzyme engineering

A new primer reviews how wood-decaying basidiomycete fungi and their oxidative enzymes could help break down stubborn plastics and convert ...

Researchers in Japan engineered an ancestral nucleoside diphosphate kinase variant with a restricted amino acid repertoire and found that it ...

A new AI-guided design platform called HelixWings engineered two P450 enzymes to use the inexpensive biomimetic cofactor NMNH, boosting catalytic ...

A 16-billion-parameter AI model called Pinal designed proteins from natural-language descriptions that showed their intended functions in laboratory tests, including ...

Researchers engineered aldehyde dehydrogenases into oxidative ester synthases whose regioselectivity for primary or secondary alcohols is controlled by imidazole acting ...

A 2026 review synthesizes plant, enzyme-engineering and microbial approaches to phytosterol production, including a reported engineered-yeast campesterol titer of 5.88 ...

Researchers have computationally designed artificial cysteine proteases from scratch that cleave peptide bonds with rate enhancements of up to ten ...

The new generative AI system RFdiffusion3 designs proteins and nucleic acids atom by atom, producing functional enzymes and RNA molecules ...

Researchers at ITQB NOVA have characterised the first bacterial galactose oxidase and engineered it into a biocatalyst up to 1800 ...

Molecular dynamics simulations of pyrimidine-nucleoside phosphorylase from Bacillus subtilis show that the enzyme's conformational state controls ligand retention and compound-specific ...