Improving the quality of industrially important enzymes by directed evolution

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 159-168

  Chirumamilla, R R ^a   Muralidhar, R ^a   Marchant, R ^a   Nigam, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Directed evolution; Enantioselectivity; Mutagenesis; Substrate specificity; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; BIOCATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENANTIOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMES; HUMANS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034798044     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011904405002     Document Type: Review

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