A high-throughput fluorescence-based glycosyltransferase screen and its application in directed evolution

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-362

  Williams, Gavin J ^a   Thorson, Jon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS;

EID: 40649092405     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.538     Document Type: Article

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