{"id":181707,"date":"2024-01-30T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/enzyme-for-biocatalysis-uses-solvent-as-a-substrate"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:23:29","slug":"enzyme-for-biocatalysis-uses-solvent-as-a-substrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/enzyme-for-biocatalysis-uses-solvent-as-a-substrate","title":{"rendered":"Enzyme for biocatalysis uses solvent as a substrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enzyme-for-biocatalysis-uses-solvent-as-a-substrate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large number of applications in the chemical industry rely on the molecules NADH or NADPH as fuel. A team led by Professor Dirk Tischler, head of the Microbial Biotechnology working group at Ruhr University Bochum, used a biocatalyst to study their production in detail.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers proved that, in addition to formate, the biocatalyst formate dehydrogenase can also convert formamides. This means, for one thing, that the enzyme can also cleave the difficult-to-break C\u2013N bond. For another, formamides are a common solvent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis opens up completely new possibilities for poorly soluble NADH reactions as well as NADPH-dependent reactions,\u201d says Tischler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of applications in the chemical industry rely on the molecules NADH or NADPH as fuel. A team led by Professor Dirk Tischler, head of the Microbial Biotechnology working group at Ruhr University Bochum, used a biocatalyst to study their production in detail. The researchers proved that, in addition to formate, the biocatalyst [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}