PROTABIT

Protabit is a start-up company founded by Stephen Mayo, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Mayo is a leader in the field of computational protein design and expects the software created by Protabit to have broad applicability as a protein improvement and discovery tool in biotechnology... Protabit has been awarded a DOE Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to engineer a more efficient dihydroxyacid dehydratase, a key bottleneck enzyme in the biosynthesis of isobutanol from glucose. Protabit is partnering with the California Institute of Technology on this 9-month Phase I effort. The team will apply computational protein design to engineer a cofactor swap, substituting a simple Mg2+ cofactor in place of a complicated, energetically expensive cofactor (Fe-S cluster)... Marni Usheroff from the Los Angeles Business Journal has written a news article about Protabit and Triad, our computational protein design software:..

Also known as: Protabit LLC

Primary location: Pasadena United States