Improvement of biocatalysts for industrial and environmental purposes by saturation mutagenesis

Biomolecules

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 778-811

  Valetti, Francesca ^a   Gilardi, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocatalysis; Bioremediation; Directed evolution; Fine chemistry; Industrial biotechnology; Protein engineering; Saturation mutagenesis; Screening methods; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; ESTERASE; HYDROLASE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; B FACTOR ITERATIVE TEST; BIOCATALYST; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CASSETTE MUTAGENESIS; COMBINATORIAL ACTIVE SITE SATURATION TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ENGINEERING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SATURATION MUTAGENESIS; SCREENING;

EID: 85009327935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2218273X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biom3040778     Document Type: Review

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