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An evolved enzyme makes only the TB-active form of an oxazolidinone building block
Frances Arnold's Caltech lab reports in Nature an enzyme, improved by directed evolution, that builds the (S) stereocenter directly, so a step that usually discards half its output no longer has to. It is still proof of concept.
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