Tolerance of different proteins for amino acid diversity

Molecular Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 111-118

  Suzuki, Motoshi ^a   Christians, Fred C ^a,c   Kim, Baek ^a   Skandalis, Adonis ^a   Black, Margaret E ^b   Loeb, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Darwin Molecular Corporation   (United States)

^c Maxygen   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV RT; HSV 1 TK; MGMT; Random mutagenesis; Taq pol I

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TAQ POLYMERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN;

AMINO ACIDS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEINS; TAQ POLYMERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 0030252433     PISSN: 13811991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01718708     Document Type: Article

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