Rational and 'irrational' design of proteins and their use in biotechnology

IUBMB Life

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-187

  Nixon, Andrew E ^a   Firestine, Steven M ^b  

^a Dyax Corp   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial; DNA shuffling; Protein engineering; Rational design

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0034129469     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/152165400306188     Document Type: Review

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