18720968. EVOLVING RANDOM HETEROPOLYMERS TOWARDS CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
EVOLVING RANDOM HETEROPOLYMERS TOWARDS CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor(s)
Alfredo Alexander-katz of Cambridge MA (US)
Shayna Hilburg of Cambridge MA (US)
Stefan Marco Eres of Berkeley CA (US)
Philjun Kang of Pleasanton CA (US)
EVOLVING RANDOM HETEROPOLYMERS TOWARDS CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18720968 titled 'EVOLVING RANDOM HETEROPOLYMERS TOWARDS CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS
Original Abstract Submitted
The present disclosure relates to using monomer-based heteropolymers to create random heteropolymers that act as biomimetic catalysts that can be evolved to mimic activities of different classes of natural enzymes. The random heteropolymers comprise a mixture of heteropolymer sequences wherein a portion of the heteropolymers comprise a catalytically active region similar to that of a naturally occurring enzyme active site.