Protein design: breaks gluten, wins iGEM2011
An undergraduate group of students from the University of Washington, managed to redesign an enzyme to efficiently break down a model peptide for Gluten, achieving an increase in activity of hundreds fold over the only current clinically tested treatment for Gluten intolerance – Winning iGEM2011. All this, over the summer. Oh, and they also managed to produce Diesel in E. Coli.
