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Enzyme catalysis

Evolution made easy

Nature Chemistry volume 6, pages 756–757 (2014)Cite this article

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Directed evolution is a powerful tool for the development of improved enzyme catalysts. Now, a method that enables an enzyme, its encoding DNA and a fluorescent reaction product to be encapsulated in a gel bead enables the application of directed evolution in an ultra-high-throughput format.

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Figure 1: Directed evolution of enzymes in gel-shell beads10.

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  1. Eugene Wee and Matt Trau are at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia,

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  2. Matt Trau is also at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia,

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