Directed Enzyme Evolution: Advances and Applications

This book focuses on some of the most significant advances in enzyme engineering that have been achieved through directed evolution and hybrid approaches. On the 25th anniversary of the discovery of directed evolution, this volume is a tribute to the pioneers of this thrilling research field, and at...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Alcalde, Miguel (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Directed evolution for Opsin Engineering (Prof. Frances H. Arnold, Caltech, USA)
  • 2. Directed evolution for enzyme enantio-selectivity (Prof. Manfred T. Reetz, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany)
  • 3. Directed evolution for fuels and chemicals (Prof. Huimin Zhao, University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA)
  • 4. Directed evolution for cancer biopharmaceuticals (Prof. Dane Wittrup, MIT, USA)
  • 5. Directed evolution of the ligninolytic consortium (Prof. Miguel Alcalde, Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
  • 6. Directed evolution for engineering of metabolic pathways (Prof. Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, University of Minnesota, USA)
  • 7. Directed evolution and metagenomics (Prof. Kenneth N. Timmis, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
  • 8. Directed evolution and protein evolvability (Prof. Jesse Bloom, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA)
  • 9. Directed evolution for understanding natural evolution (Prof. Dan S. Tawfik, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
  • 10. Diversity methods for directed evolution (Prof. Ullrich Schwaneberg, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany)
  • 11. Ancestral enzymes, evolution and resurrection (Prof. Jose Manuel Sanchez Ruiz, Universidad de Granada, Spain)
  • 12. Directed evolution and computational protein algorithms (Prof. Victor Guallar, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain).