CLASSY’s 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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