Work by Drupad and Nik features in two back-to-back papers that are now online in Nature

We are very proud to be associated with this work from Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and SynBioChem on novel enzyme and cofactor discovery. Read all about it here:

• White, M., Payne, K.A.P., Fisher, K., Parker, D., Rattray, N.J.W., Trivedi, D., Goodacre, R., Rigby, S.E.J., Scrutton, N.S., Hay, S. & Leys, D. (2015) UbiX is a flavin prenyltransferase required for bacterial ubiquinone biosynthesis. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature14559 

• Payne, K.A.P., White, M., Fisher, K., Khara, B., Parker, D., Rattray, N.J.W., Trivedi, D., Goodacre, R., Beveridge, R., Barran, P., Rigby, S.E.J., Scrutton, N.S., Hay, S. & Leys, D. (2015) A new cofactor supports reversible decarboxylation of α,β-unsaturated acids reminiscent of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition chemistry. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature14560