{"id":213981,"date":"2025-05-14T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/designing-enzymes-from-scratch-new-workflow-paves-way-for-more-powerful-and-environmentally-benign-chemistry"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:30:33","slug":"designing-enzymes-from-scratch-new-workflow-paves-way-for-more-powerful-and-environmentally-benign-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/designing-enzymes-from-scratch-new-workflow-paves-way-for-more-powerful-and-environmentally-benign-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Designing enzymes from scratch: New workflow paves way for more powerful and environmentally benign chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designing-enzymes-from-scratch-new-workflow-paves-way-for-more-powerful-and-environmentally-benign-chemistry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 environmentally benign chemistry. The new method allows designers to combine a variety of desirable properties into new-to-nature catalysts for an array of applications, from drug development to materials design.<\/p>\n<p>This research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adt7268\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, and is the result of a collaborative effort among the DeGrado lab at UCSF, the Yang lab at UCSB and the Liu lab at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people could design very efficient enzymes from scratch, you could solve many important problems,\u201d said UCSB chemistry professor Yang Yang, a senior author on the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 environmentally benign chemistry. The new method allows designers to combine a variety of desirable properties into new-to-nature catalysts for an array of applications, from drug development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213981","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\/213981","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}