Unnatural amino acid mutagenesis-based enzyme engineering

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 462-470

  Ravikumar, Yuvaraj ^a   Nadarajan, Saravanan Prabhu ^b   Hyeon Yoo, Tae ^c   Lee, Chong Soon ^a   Yun, Hyungdon ^b  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

BIOCATALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; FUTURE PROSPECTS; INCORPORATION METHOD; NATURAL AMINO ACIDS; SITE-SPECIFIC; UNNATURAL AMINO ACIDS;

ENZYMES;

AMINO ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNNATURAL AMINO ACID; ENZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOCATALYSIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; FLUORINE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENZYMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84937521963     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.05.002     Document Type: Review

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