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Increased Diels-Alderase Activity through Backbone Remodeling Guided by Foldit Players

Christopher B. Eiben, et al., Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2012, pp. 190–192

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Foldit players remodelled an enzyme's backbone to achieve over 18-fold greater catalytic activity — the proof that human spatial intuition can guide functional protein improvement. Published in Nature Biotechnology with Foldit Players as co-authors.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3566767/

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