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Unnatural design

Nature Methods volume 7, page 671 (2010)Cite this article

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Researchers designed an enzyme to carry out the Diels-Alder reaction, an activity not found in nature.

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  1. Siegel, J.B. et al. Computational design of an enzyme catalyst for a stereoselective bimolecular Diels-Alder reaction. Science 329, 309–313 (2010).

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  1. Allison Doerr
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Doerr, A. Unnatural design. Nat Methods 7, 671 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0910-671

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