Enzyme engineering: reaching the maximal catalytic efficiency peak

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2017, Pages 140-150

  Goldsmith, Moshe ^a   Tawfik, Dan S ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EPISTASIS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ENZYME;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 85031724912     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.09.002     Document Type: Review

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