Selection Finder (SelFi): A computational metabolic engineering tool to enable directed evolution of enzymes

Metabolic Engineering Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2017, Pages 37-47

  Hassanpour, Neda ^a   Ullah, Ehsan ^a   Yousofshahi, Mona ^a   Nair, Nikhil U ^a   Hassoun, Soha ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed evolution of enzymes; Enzyme engineering; Flux balance analysis; Pathway analysis; Pathway synthesis; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; ANILINE; ENZYME; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHANOL; PHOSPHORIBULOKINASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; XYLITOL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON SOURCE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SELECTION FINDER;

EID: 85015409814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22140301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meteno.2017.02.003     Document Type: Article

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