Advances in generating functional diversity for directed protein evolution

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-25

  Shivange, Amol V ^a   Marienhagen, Jan ^a   Mundhada, Hemanshu ^a   Schenk, Alexander ^a   Schwaneberg, Ulrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; CODON; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; MUTANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 65249152992     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.01.019     Document Type: Review

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