The new product biopropane (biopropane liquid gas- bioLPG) has just come onto the market as a large scale product. Neste has started up the world’s first large-scale renewable propane production facility in Rotterdam with their new facility having a production capacity of 40,000 tonnes per year. BioLPG can be used within a full range of…
Corinne Baumgartner describes how green production values drive Givauden production of flavor and fragrance compounds
Purifying water is one of the great challenges facing society and now biotechnology is being used to improve water purification techniques. This is very important for removing pollution and producing water thst is safe to drink (desperately needed in poorer countries). Aquaporin is a Danish company named after a protein that transports water molecules across…
The ROBOX members are presenting at the following upcoming conferences – c-LEcta GmbH will be at the Gordon Research Conference Biocatalysis and at the EMBO workshop “Enzymes, biocatalysis and chemical biology: At the new frontiers to present on the development of ADH and NOX for robust, selective and efficient oxidation reactions suitable for industrial processes.…
The 7th EuCheMS Chemistry conference, 26-30 August 2018 is in Liverpool, UK. The conference has excellent keynote speakers, and there is still time for submitting abstracts for oral and poster presentations (deadline February 19). See https://www.euchems2018.org/ Although the conference covers all aspects of catalysis there is a strong biocatalysis lineup. Biological catalysis Convenor: Dick Janssen…
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology Open Day 2016 The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) organises and contributes to a range of outreach, public engagement and widening participation events throughout the year in accordance with the University of Manchester’s social responsibility remit. The latest of these was the institute’s 5th A-Level Open Day which, this year, featured…
Here are our latest posters that give more details about our results. Please contact us if you wish to find out more. From ACIB some results on drug metabolite synthesis – Combinatorial Optimization strategies to increase Human P450 catalytic Activity in whole cell Biotransformations From DTU two posters on implementation of biooxidation – Kinetic Evaluation…
Our latest publication describes further developments at our partner RUG in fusion enzymes for co-factor recycling. See “What to sacrifice? Fusions of cofactor regenerating enzymes with Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases and alcohol dehydrogenases for self-sufficient redox biocatalysis” Read more about our portfolio of cytochrome P450 enzymes in Exploring the Biocatalytic Potential of a Self‐Sufficient Cytochrome P450 from…
RUG made a significant contribution to this paper on enzyme improvement Manipulating the stereoselectivity of the thermostable Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenase TmCHMO by directed evolution Abstract UAB have led the publication of a collaborative ROBOX paper An immobilized and highly stabilized self-sufficient monooxygenase as biocatalyst for oxidative biotransformations Full Paper UNIMAN publish a new paper on…
Report D1.1 Identification of genes predicted to encode relevant robust BVMOs and oxidases D1.2 Set of P450 enzymes with improved performance for hydroxylation of aromatics, alkenes and a set of API-sensors to ena D1.4 Generation of a first flow cytometer based screening system for quantification of one product in the P450 BM3 demonstration p D1.6…