Tag: Cytochrome P450

  • Enzyme Engineered through Artificial Evolution to Break Silicon-Carbon Bonds

    Enzyme Engineered through Artificial Evolution to Break Silicon-Carbon Bonds

    In a groundbreaking paper published in Science, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has unveiled a remarkable achievement in the realm of enzymatic evolution. Titled “Directed evolution of enzymatic silicon-carbon bond cleavage in siloxanes,” the research introduces a novel approach to manipulating bacterial cytochrome P450 variants for breaking silicon-carbon bonds…