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Alix Harlington

@alixharlington.bsky.social
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PhD at the University of Adelaide | Synbio, CryoEM, X-ray crystallography, Biocatalysts |

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And for anyone keen to get the skinny on the people and the context behind the paper, head over to go.nature.com/4k6mnB8 to see @alixharlington.bsky.social 's mystical #blender render of this rare enzyme. Sound the #molecularnodes alarm @bradyajohnston.bsky.social 👍
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Demethylation of Lignin-derived syringol? There's (now) a peroxygenase for that.
Plant processing from forestry and agriculture generates ~100 million tons of lignin waste each year. How do microorganisms process lignin to make use of this vast resource? We've discovered a bacteri...
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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Happy to report our enzyme found a home! rdcu.be/eaGXG New kid on the block P450 O-demethylase SyoA-the specificity of a monooxygenase with the simplicity of catalysis driven by peroxide. Retrofit your P450 with this active site chemistry today! #lignin #syringol Out today in Nature Communications.
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