Proteins & Enzymes

Proteins and enzymes do the chemistry of life. Enzymes speed up reactions by many orders of magnitude and chain together into metabolic networks that build everything a cell needs. Many of nature’s most interesting molecules come from biosynthetic gene clusters, sets of genes that encode an entire assembly line. We model enzymes, their kinetics and the networks they form. We are lucky to sit just below the BioZone, a huge collaborative lab space for bioengineering.