Designer enzyme conquers sulfite reduction, a bottleneck in environmental cleanup Sep 14, 2018 3:00 pm by Lois YoksoulianResearch Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Chemistry professor Yi Lu, left, and graduate student Evan Mirts have designed a new synthetic enzyme that reduces the compound sulfite to sulfide – a notoriously complex multistep chemical reaction that has eluded chemists for years. Share on Facebook Tweet Email