Approaches to engineer stability of beetle luciferases

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages e201204004-

  Koksharov, Mikhail I ^a   Ugarova, Natalia N ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Directed Evolution; Firefly Luciferase; Protein Engineering; Thermal Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896529014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20010370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201209004     Document Type: Article

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