supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDC0110201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32222004 and 32070083);the Major Program and Innovation Fund of Haihe Laboratory of Synthetic Biology(22HHSWSS00003 and 22HHSWSS00017);the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-072);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(2021177);the Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project(TSBICIP-KJGG-008).
Background Formolase(FLS)is a computationally designed enzyme that catalyzes the carboligation of two or three C1 formaldehyde molecules into C2 glycolaldehyde or C3 dihydroxyacetone(DHA).FLS lays the foundation for s...