Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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A study by chemistry professor Wilfred van der Donk and his colleagues describes the unusual mechanism by which a newly described enzyme breaks a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step.

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