Exploring Nitrilase Sequence Space for Enantioselective Catalysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2429-2436

  Robertson, Dan E ^a   Chaplin, Jennifer A ^a   DeSantis, Grace ^a   Podar, Mircea ^a   Madden, Mark ^a   Chi, Ellen ^a,b   Richardson, Toby ^a   Milan, Aileen ^a   Miller, Mark ^a   Weiner, David P ^a   Wong, Kelvin ^a   McQuaid, Jeff ^a   Farwell, Bob ^a   Preston, Lori A ^a   Tan, Xuqiu ^a   Snead, Marjory A ^a   Keller, Martin ^a   Mathur, Eric ^a   Kretz, Patricia L ^a   Burk, Mark J ^a   Short, Jay M ^a   more..

^a DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Takeda San Diego Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL CENTERS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY;

CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CLONING; DEGRADATION; DNA; ENZYMES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA; NITRILASE; NITRILE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; BIOTOPE; CATALYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINOHYDROLASES; CATALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRILES; PHYLOGENY; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 4344663593     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2429-2436.2004     Document Type: Article

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