Protein Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Köhrer, Caroline (Editor), RajBhandary, Uttam L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 22
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemical engineering.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Materials science.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Biochemical Engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Materials Science, general.

Site-specific mutagenesis of DNA, developed some thirty years ago, has proven to be one of the most important advances in biology. By allowing the site-specific replacement of any amino acid in a protein with one of the other nineteen amino acids, it ushered in the new era of "Protein Engineeri...