title: Enhancing catalytic promiscuity for biocatalysis.
abstract: Catalytic promiscuity - the ability of a single active site to catalyse more than one chemical transformation - has a natural role in evolution and occasionally in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Catalytic promiscuity is more widespread than often recognized. Recent success in adding and enhancing such catalytic activities by protein engineering suggests new potential applications in enzyme-catalyzed organic synthesis.
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics and The Biotechnology Institute, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA. rjk@umn.edu
authors.forename: Romas J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kazlauskas
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D002384:Catalysis; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015202:Protein Engineering
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes