Plug-and-play – enzymatic amino acid production from methanol and carbon dioxide
Vivian Pascal Willers, Viktoria Lehmann, Susanne Müller, Ferdinand Vogelgsang, Arne Roth, Bastian Blombach, André Pick, Volker Sieber · 2026
Read Plug-and-play – enzymatic amino acid production from methanol and carbon dioxide by Vivian Pascal Willers, Viktoria Lehmann, Susanne Müller, Ferdinand Vogelgsang, Arne Roth, Bastian Blombach, André Pick, Volker Sieber (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13276030.txt.
Description
Vivian Pascal Willers and co-authors present a 2026 journal article on making amino acids without farms. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and are used in animal feed, food supplements, and flavorings. Their system builds them in one pot from methanol, ammonia, and partly carbon dioxide.
The authors designed a chain of enzymes, proteins that speed up chemical steps, that can be swapped like plug-and-play parts. By changing modules, the same setup produced six different amino acids, including glycine, serine, and glutamic acid. Methanol can itself be made from captured carbon dioxide, so the route points to food and feed supply with a smaller footprint. The study frames the system as a case study in sustainable production.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vivian Pascal Willers, Viktoria Lehmann, Susanne Müller, Ferdinand Vogelgsang, Arne Roth, Bastian Blombach, André Pick, Volker Sieber |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 85684 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |