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Enzyme Engineering and Evolution: General Methods

  • 1st Edition, Volume 643 - September 3, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Dan S. Tawfik
  • Language: English

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Description

This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Methods in Enzymology series

Readership

Biochemists, biophysicists, molecular biologists, analytical chemists, and physiologists

Table of contents

1. In vivo site-directed recombination (SDR): An efficient tool to reveal beneficial epistasis

Javier Viña-Gonzalez and Miguel Alcalde

2. A beginner's guide to molecular dynamics simulations and the identification of cross-correlation networks for enzyme engineering

Haoran Yu and Paul A. Dalby

3. Exploration of enzyme diversity: High-throughput techniques for protein production and microscale biochemical characterization

Michal Vasina, Pavel Vanacek, Jiri Damborsky and Zbynek Prokop

4. Emulsion-based directed evolution of enzymes and proteins in yeast

Elizabeth C. Gardner, Ella J. Watkins, Jimmy Gollihar and Andrew D. Ellington

5. Remodeling enzyme active sites by stepwise loop insertion

Md Anarul Hoque, Yong Zhang, Li Zhi, Li Cui and Yan Feng

6. Consensus Finder web tool to predict stabilizing substitutions in proteins

Bryan J. Jones, Chi Nok Enoch Kan, Christine Luo and Romas J. Kazlauskas

7. The use of consensus sequence information to engineer stability and activity in proteins

Matt Sternke, Katherine W. Tripp and Doug Barrick

8. Structure-guided rational design of the substrate specificity and catalytic activity of an enzyme

Jung Min Choi and Hak-Sung Kim

9. Biological fitness landscapes by deep mutational scanning

Jacob D. Mehlhoff and Marc Ostermeier

10. Focused rational iterative site-specific mutagenesis (FRISM)

Danyang Li, Qi Wu and Manfred T. Reetz

11. Statistical analysis of mutational epistasis to reveal intramolecular interaction networks in proteins

Charlotte M. Miton, John Z. Chen, Kalum Ost, Dave W. Anderson and Nobuhiko Tokuriki

12. Machine learning-assisted enzyme engineering

Niklas E. Siedhoff, Ulrich Schwaneberg and Mehdi D. Davari

13. Ultrahigh throughput screening for enzyme function in droplets

Stefanie Neun, Paul J. Zurek, Tomasz S. Kaminski and Florian Hollfelder

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 643
  • Published: September 3, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Dan S. Tawfik

Dan Tawfik is Principal Investigator at The Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Investigator, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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