Mechanism and Catalytic Promiscuity: Emerging Mechanistic Principles for Identification and Manipulation of Catalytically Promiscuous Enzymes

Protein Engineering Handbook, Volume 1 & Volume 2

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 47-79

  Jonas, Stefanie ^a   Hollfelder, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active site; Catalytic promiscuity; Enzyme mechanism; Protein superfamily; Rate acceleration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884639085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634026.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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