Methods to increase enantioselectivity of lipases and esterases

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 543-547

  Bornscheuer, Uwe T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; ISOENZYME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; SOLVENT;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; ISOENZYMES; LIPASE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOLVENTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036903280     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(02)00350-6     Document Type: Review

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