From nature to industry: Harnessing enzymes for biocatalysis

Biocatalysis harnesses enzymes to make valuable products. This green technology is used in countless applications from bench scale to industrial production and allows practitioners to access complex organic molecules, often with fewer synthetic steps and reduced waste. The last decade has seen an explosion in the development of experimental and computational tools to tailor enzymatic properties, equipping enzyme engineers with the ability to create biocatalysts that perform reactions not present in nature. By using (chemo)-enzymatic synthesis routes or orchestrating intricate enzyme cascades, scientists can synthesize elaborate targets ranging from DNA and complex pharmaceuticals to starch made in vitro from…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: CBET-2039039, 1930825, 2039039
• GC
  Genome Canada
• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Award: Bo1862/25-1
• SN
  Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

  Award: 180544
• NP
  Novartis Pharma
• DO
  Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems