Screening for novel enzymes for biocatalytic processes: Accessing the metagenome as a resource of novel functional sequence space

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 572-577

  Lorenz, Patrick ^a   Liebeton, Klaus ^a   Niehaus, Frank ^a   Eck, J ^a  

^a BRAIN AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0036900864     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(02)00345-2     Document Type: Review

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