Man-made cell-like compartments for molecular evolution

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 652-656

  Tawfik, Dan S ^a   Griffiths, Andrew D ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell free transcription translation; Directed evolution; DNA methylase

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMULSIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031854986     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0798-652     Document Type: Article

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