A team of scientists, including 'enzyme engineer' Marco Fraaije from the University of Groningen, has now developed an enzyme that can put a lignin monomer to use in chemical synthesis.The enzyme ...

Leiden researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps bacteria feed on everyday plastics. This common enzyme could play a ...

In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have now derived universal ...

A team of scientists, including ‘enzyme engineer’ Marco Fraaije from the University of Groningen, has now developed an enzyme that can put a lignin monomer to use in chemical synthesis.

In some cases, the enzymes fully degraded PET plastic down to the monomer level—the basic building blocks of plastic—in less than a day.

“We've engineered our enzyme to stick to a resin, while none of the cell’s other proteins will. And then we can have the enzyme unbind, resulting in a pure product.” Once the enzyme is extracted, it ...

The scientists also added an enzyme protectant called four-monomer random heteropolymer, or RHP, to help disperse the enzymes a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) apart.

Organisms today employ multiple enzymes, proteins and RNA, to catalyze biochemical reactions that are essential for life. According to the RNA world model, DNA and proteins were absent when life ...