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Designer enzymes

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Evolution has crafted thousands of enzymes that are efficient catalysts for a plethora of reactions. Human attempts at enzyme design trail far behind, but may benefit from exploiting evolutionary tactics.

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Figure 1: Artificial enzyme evolution.

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  1. Michael P. Robertson and William G. Scott are at the Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. wgscott@chemistry.ucsc.edu,

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