"Biological breakdown of lignin occurs in a complex microbial quorum, with fungal enzymes likely breaking up hard polymers, and bacteria taking the unreactive smaller compounds and processing them ...

The authors identified 31,989 possible plastic-degrading enzymes using the machine learning model CLEAN, which stands for "contrastive learning-enabled enzyme annotation." The authors then ...

How, though, would a DNA-degrading enzyme distinguish between the two? Arber hypothesized that bacterial cells might express two types of enzymes: a restriction enzyme that recognizes and cuts up ...