C2 Biotechnologies combines intelligent protein design with industrial process requirements to produce products and services that improve quality of life. Our technology platform is based on our fusion enzyme technology. Our fusion enzymes are designed and constructed using computational, molecular and structural biologies to produce proteins with multiple activities important for industrial processes.  

Research & Development Focus: Fusion Enzymes

C2B harnesses the power of biology to fuse different proteins, specifically, enzymes with desirable characteristics into one product.  We call this process our fusion enzyme technology platform.

All organisms require the use of proteins to function and survive. Generally, each protein is encoded by one gene, which is a central dogma of biology: one gene, one protein, one activity. Evolution occurs naturally by the introduction of mutations in genes that result in proteins with biological activities that confer better chances for organism survival when challenged by the environment. Evolutionary processes have resulted in the development of many organisms with enzymes adapted to various environments.

C2B uses protein engineering and molecular biology to screen and select enzymes that have biophysical properties compatible with operation in manufacturing environments and combines them to produce products that have multiple functions, are easier to use and improve yields.

Combining multiple enzymatic activities into one protein reduces manufacturing requirements and provides our customers with products that are cost effective, simpler to use, reduce variability and increase yield in manufacturing processes.

Our technology process uses a series of steps to identify, screen, engineer and construct a single enzyme with multiple functions for a specific industrial process. 

Commercial Value

The commercial value developed by this technology is the ability to construct products with biological activities that can operate under the diverse environments observed in industry or to combine desired activities into one product to reduce operating costs. Many of the problems encountered in commercializing an industrial process are self created. The problems are created because unique processes are combined in ways to optimize the production of materials. The process is engineered so that raw material is transformed into a commercial product in a series of steps. The placement and timing of the steps is important for making the commercial product. Unfortunately the juxtaposition of some steps is required yet the transition between them is difficult and therein produces problems that require unique solutions.