Recent Biotechnological Interventions for Developing Improved Penicillin G Acylases

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Rajendhran, Jeyaprakash ^a   Gunasekaran, Paramasamy ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Directed evolution; Enzyme stabilization; Penicillin acylase; Post translational processing; Protein engineering; lactam antibiotics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; HYDROLYSIS;

POST-TRANSLATIONAL PROCESSING;

ENZYMES;

6 AMINOPENICILLANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; PENICILLIN AMIDASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; RECOMBINANT DNA; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0442313605     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1723(04)70157-7     Document Type: Review

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