LIFE SCIENCES

Life Sciences

Principal Investigator: Jürgen Pleiss , Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart (Germany)

HPC Platform used: Hazel Hen of HLRS

Local Project ID: Biocat

The development of novel sustainable biocatalytic processes requires systematic studies of the molecular interactions between enzymes, substrates, and solvents. Based on the HLRS HPC infrastructure, comprehensive molecular simulations were performed to investigate substrate binding in enzymatic reaction systems.

Life Sciences

Principal Investigator: Jürgen Pleiss , Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart (Germany)

HPC Platform used: Hermit of HLRS

Local Project ID: Biocat

To gain further insight into how lipases catalyze the hydrolysis of water-insoluble triglycerides like fats and oils, scientists leveraged the computing power of the HLRS HPC infrastructure for a computational modelling of a lipase at a hydrophobic substrate interface. In total, more than 1μs of molecular dynamics simulations were performed on a system consisting of 100,000 atoms.