Directed evolution by in vitro compartmentalization

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 561-570

  Miller, Oliver J ^a,b   Bernath, Kalia ^c,d   Agresti, Jeremy J ^a,e   Amitai, Gil ^c   Kelly, Bernard T ^a   Mastrobattista, Enrico ^a,f   Taly, Valérie ^a,b   Magdassi, Shlomo ^d   Tawfik, Dan S ^c   Griffiths, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT; WATER OIL CREAM;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EMULSION; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EMULSIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 33745339106     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth897     Document Type: Article

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