A general strategy for expanding polymerase function by droplet microfluidics

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Larsen, Andrew C ^a   Dunn, Matthew R ^a,b   Hatch, Andrew ^c   Sau, Sujay P ^a   Youngbull, Cody ^c   Chaput, John C ^a,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; MANGANESE; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MONOSACCHARIDE;

ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; IN VITRO SELECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; IMMOBILIZED CELL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; MONOSACCHARIDES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84963994525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11235     Document Type: Article

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