DNA shuffling of a family of genes from diverse species accelerates directed evolution

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6664, 1998, Pages 288-291

  Crameri, Andreas ^a   Raillard, Sun Ai ^a   Bermudez, Ericka ^a   Stemmer, Willem P C ^a  

^a MAXYGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORINASE; DNA; MOXALACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINASE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOXALACTAM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0032518266     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34663     Document Type: Article

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