title: Laccase engineering by rational and evolutionary design.
abstract: Laccases are considered as green catalysts of great biotechnological potential. This has attracted a great interest in designing laccases a la carte with enhanced stabilities or activities tailored to specific conditions for different fields of application. Over 20 years, numerous efforts have been taken to engineer these multicopper oxidases and to understand their reaction mechanisms by site-directed mutagenesis, and more recently, using computational calculations and directed evolution tools. In this work, we review the most relevant contributions made in the field of laccase engineering, from the comprehensive study of their structure-function relationships to the tailoring of outstanding biocatalysts.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Camarero
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D055162:Biocatalysis; D019020:Directed Molecular Evolution; D042845:Laccase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015202:Protein Engineering; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D042845:Laccase; D010100:Oxygen