Bifunctional enzymes find a wide application as a monitoring facility and a potential biocatalyst in molecular biology and biotechnology. Recombination of natural enzymes to a bifunctional fusion offers valuable tools, but the functional and structural instability of artificial fusion enzymes remain
Directed evolution of enzyme stability
✍ Scribed by Vincent G.H. Eijsink; Sigrid Gåseidnes; Torben V. Borchert; Bertus van den Burg
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1389-0344
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