Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins through the design and production of unnatural polypeptides, often by altering...
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Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions...
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Directed evolution (section Protein engineering)
evolution (DE) is a method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to steer proteins or nucleic acids toward a user-defined...
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Fusion proteins or chimeric (kī-ˈmir-ik) proteins (literally, made of parts from different sources) are proteins created through the joining of two or...
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The MRC Centre for Protein Engineering (or CPE) was a pioneering research unit in Cambridge, England, with a main focus on the structure, stability and...
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protein engineering. There is great hope that the design of new proteins, small and large, will have uses in biomedicine and bioengineering. Protein design...
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Protein Engineering Design & Selection is a publication of Oxford University Press. Created in 1986, the Journal covers topics related the engineering...
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stable, domains can be "swapped" by genetic engineering between one protein and another to make chimeric proteins. The concept of the domain was first proposed...
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Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering (UK) where he developed, together with Sir Alan R. Fersht, methods for the high resolution of protein folding. Nölting...
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Thermal shift assay (section Screening for inhibitors of protein-protein interactions of modulators of protein conformational changes)
so protein engineering often includes adding mutations to increase thermal stability. Protein crystallization is more successful for proteins with a higher...
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era, engineering is generally considered to consist of the major primary branches of chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, materials...
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Sortase A (redirect from SrtA protein)
Popp MW, Ploegh HL (May 2011). "Making and breaking peptide bonds: protein engineering using sortase". Angewandte Chemie. 50 (22): 5024–32. doi:10.1002/anie...
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Protein crystallization is the process of formation of a regular array of individual protein molecules stabilized by crystal contacts. If the crystal is...
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Cambridge from 2012 to 2018. He works on protein folding, and is sometimes described as a founder of protein engineering. Fersht was born on 21 April 1943 in...
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Structure-based combinatorial protein engineering (SCOPE) is a synthetic biology technique for creating gene libraries (lineages) of defined composition...
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to the stability to the entropically unfavorable folded conformation of proteins. Although non-covalent interactions are known to be relatively weak interactions...
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Codexis, Inc. is a protein engineering company that develops enzymes for pharmaceutical, food and medical applications. Codexis is based in Redwood City...
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Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random...
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first company to focus on genetic engineering, Genentech, was founded in 1976 and started the production of human proteins. Genetically engineered human insulin...
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Homologous recombination (section Protein engineering)
technologies. Protein engineering with homologous recombination develops chimeric proteins by swapping fragments between two parental proteins. These techniques...
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Auxotrophy (section Auxotrophy-based methods to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins and proteomes)
Robert; Budisa, Nediljko (2000). "Towards New Protein Engineering: In Vivo Building and Folding of Protein Shuttles for Drug Delivery and Targeting by the...
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which includes organ engineering, tissue engineering, protein engineering, and genetic engineering. The field of cellular engineering is gaining more traction...
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Mathias Uhlén (section Protein engineering)
microbiology at KTH in 1988. His research is focused on protein science, antibody engineering and precision medicine and range from basic research in...
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internal activation. The protein engineering approach involves synthesizing a new ligand and directed mutation of the protein's ligand-binding site. In...
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simply site saturation, is a random mutagenesis technique used in protein engineering, in which a single codon or set of codons is substituted with all...
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display (or yeast surface display) is a protein engineering technique that uses the expression of recombinant proteins incorporated into the cell wall of yeast...
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Serum albumin (redirect from Protein albumin)
structure of human serum albumin at 2.5 A resolution". Protein Engineering. 12 (6): 439–46. doi:10.1093/protein/12.6.439. PMID 10388840. Hawkins JW, Dugaiczyk...
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Gregory Winter (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering)
Division of Protein and Nucleic Acids Chemistry from 1994 to 2006. He was also Deputy Director of the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering from 1990 to...
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Site-directed mutagenesis (category Protein engineering)
structure and biological activity of DNA, RNA, and protein molecules, and for protein engineering. Site-directed mutagenesis is one of the most important...
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characteristics and function Detecting microorganisms Biomarker detection Protein engineering detection Diagnosis of health disorders such as blood cancers Measuring...
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