A Biocompatible Lossen Rearrangement in Escherichia Coli
Forget your fume hood, E. coli just became your new reaction vessel 💡 What’s new?Researchers have shown that a classic organic transformation (the Lossen rearrangement) runs smoothly inside E. coli cells. The reaction uses only phosphate as a catalyst, so no engineered enzyme is needed. By converting a specially activated precursor into para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA), the reaction restores growth to an E. coli strain that cannot…