Welcome and thank you for your interest in our section on protein engineering! In layman’s terms, Protein Engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins for a plethora of applications. This can be achieved by a number of different ways, dependent on how much is known about an enzyme.

One of this ways is the approach of “Directed Evolution of Enzymes”, which (combined with the phage display of peptides and antibodies) just last year was even awarded with the 2018 Nobel prize for Chemistry!

Protein engineering allows us to tailor peptides and proteins – the nanomachines of living cells – to our needs to produce a huge spectrum of bio-based products and in the long term to join the worlds of biocatalysis and chemocatalysis.