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Enzyme Engineering and Evolution: Specific Enzyme Applications

  • 1st Edition, Volume 644 - September 15, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Dan S. Tawfik
  • Language: English

Methods in Enzymology, Volume 644, the latest release in this ongoing serial, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.… Read more

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Methods in Enzymology, Volume 644, the latest release in this ongoing serial, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Chapters in this new release include Site-directed recombination (SDR) in vivo: a fast and reliable tool to unveil beneficial epistasis, Creation and application of amine oxidase with expanded substrate specificities from porcine kidney D-amino acid oxidase, Methods to assess correlation networks for engineering transketolase, Exploration of Enzyme Diversity by Integrating Bioinformatics with Microfluidics, Engineering lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), Emulsion-based directed evolution of enzymes in yeast, and much more.

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. Engineering lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)

Zarah Forsberg, Anton A. Stepnov, Guro Kruge Nærdal, Geir Klinkenberg and Vincent G. H. Eijsink

2. Strategies for the expression and characterization of artificial myoglobin-based carbene transferases

Daniela M. Carminati, Eric J. Moore and Rudi Fasan

3. Methods for the detection and analysis of dioxygenase catalyzed dihydroxylation in mutant derived libraries

Julian L. Wissner, Wendy Escobedo-Hinojosa, Peter M. Heinemann, Andreas Hunold and Bernhard Hauer

4. Enhancing promiscuous chemistries of a Schiff-base forming enzyme by divergent evolution

Duncan S. Macdonald and Donald Hilvert

5. Glutamine-walking: Creating reactive substrates for transglutaminase-mediated protein labeling

Lukas Deweid, Adem H. Parisien, Kiana Lafontaine, Léa N.C. Rochet, Harald Kolmar and Joelle N. Pelletier

6. Engineering aldolases for asymmetric synthesis

Mikael Widersten

7. Ultra-high throughput screening for novel protease specificities

Eirini Rousounelou, Steven Schmitt, Luzius Pestalozzi, Martin Held, Tania M. Roberts and Sven Panke

8. Directed evolution of transcriptional switches using dual-selector systems

Yuki Kimura and Daisuke Umeno

9. Methods for competitive enrichment and evaluation of superior DNA ligases

Janine K. Sharma, Luke J. Stevenson, Katherine J. Robins, Adele K. Williamson, Wayne M. Patrick and David F. Ackerley

10. Directed evolution of custom polymerases using droplet microfluidics

Derek Vallejo, Ali Nikoomanzar and John C. Chaput

11. Optically guided mass spectrometry to screen microbial colonies for directed enzyme evolution

Pu Xue, Tong Si and Huimin Zhao

12. Split enzymes: Design principles and strategy

Shion A. Lim and James A. Wells

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 644
  • Published: September 16, 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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