Computer aided enzyme design and catalytic concepts

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-62

  Frushicheva, Maria P ^b   Mills, Matthew J L ^a   Schopf, Patrick ^a   Singh, Manoj K ^a   Prasad, Ram B ^a   Warshel, Arieh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; ESTER DERIVATIVE; LACTONE; PHOSPHATE;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; EVOLUTION; REVIEW; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENZYMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84899887595     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.03.022     Document Type: Review

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