CLASSY is a FET-Open Research and Innovation Action inspired by the elegance with which living cells synthesize an enormous variety of complex products. Its ultimate aim is to develop the first microfluidic platform of microreactors, through the compartmentalisation of multiple catalytic peptides and/or enzymes, to emulate living cells in their capacity to self-regulate and catalyse programmable multistep synthetic processes.
The specific objectives of CLASSY are:
- develop a microfluidic platform for the immobilisation of multiple enzymes or peptide catalysts in microfluidic compartments, so to produce a versatile set of flow reactors that can catalyse a variety of single-step reactions;
- deliver a new type of hybrid molecules capable to selectively control the catalysis of specific single-step reactions through programmable activation/deactivation of self-synthesising catalysts;
- study the microfluidic programming of cascade reactions by selective activation/ deactivation of catalysts that operate sequentially.
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