Cleaning up our own backyard: developing new catabolic pathways to degrade pollutants.
Microbial-based strategies for pollution control require metabolic pathways by which man-made compounds may be degraded. Recombination-based mutagenesis and selection procedures may be able to mimic the evolution of catabolic pathways and generate enzymes with novel specificities.
Minshull
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Affymax Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA.
D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D002384:Catalysis; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000378:metabolism*; D004798:Enzymes / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D016296:Mutagenesis; D015202:Protein Engineering
D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D004798:Enzymes