AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky. John Timmer – Feb 14, 2025 11:47 am ...

The enzyme, which has been named Huc, is used by the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis to draw energy from atmospheric hydrogen, enabling it to survive in extreme, nutrient-poor environments.

Crafting enzymes is more difficult than designing other proteins because it requires not just predicting the structure of a single protein conformation, but of changes in conformations as enzymes ...

Each step has an enzyme that catalyzes it, because otherwise those reactions wouldn’t go fast enough for life to exist. … An enzyme is a protein that is a catalyst. They’re the best catalysts in the ...