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We are exploiting the potential of natural enzymes to design chimeric enzymes that efficiently synthesize novel linkages between biopolymers like peptides, oligonucleotides etc.
DNA-mediated assembly of unnatural enzyme complexes can bring about novel reactions. We are interested in achieving reactions difficult to accomplish with conventional organic synthesis.
Many protein biotherapeutics of non-human sources are rejected because of immunogenicity concerns. Drawing inspiration from the "antibody humanization" approach, we are developing a pipeline that will allow the deimmunization of any protein of choice.