Researchers published a study confirming the discovery of a new process for producing active complex compounds in amoebae. In particular, studying the process of olivetolic acid production (a compound ...

Our society urgently requires a transition from fossil fuel dependence to a biosustainable economy. Engineering assembly-line or multi-domain megasynthases, such as type I polyketide synthases (PKSs), ...

Marine algae Prymnesium parvum use massive enzymes dubbed PKZILLAs – some of the largest proteins ever to be identified in nature – to make large and complex prymnesin neurotoxins responsible for mass ...

A German-US coalition of researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and the University of Michigan (MI, USA) have added a new element to the production of an antibiotic, erythromycin, to ...

Researchers discover the largest protein yet identified in biology, all thanks to an investigation of a marine alga’s creates toxin synthesis. In a recent study, researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...