Engineering proteins by reconstructing evolutionary adaptive paths

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1179, Issue , 2014, Pages 353-363

  Cox, Vanessa E ^a   Gaucher, Eric A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral sequence reconstruction; Functional divergence; Molecular evolution; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECONSTRUCTING EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTIVE PATHS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENE LIBRARY; PROCEDURES;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84925884180     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1053-3_24     Document Type: Article

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