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ANU chemists nearly doubled a PET enzyme's activity by swapping a CH group for nitrogen
A single azatryptophan, which differs from tryptophan by one nitrogen, raised PET breakdown in an already heavily engineered hydrolase while thermal stability held. The team also built a minutes-long activity assay.
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