Enhancing catalytic promiscuity for biocatalysis.
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.
Kazlauskas
Romas J
RJ
University of Minnesota, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics and The Biotechnology Institute, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA. rjk@umn.edu
D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D002384:Catalysis; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015202:Protein Engineering
D004798:Enzymes