Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Mapping enzyme catalysis with metabolic biosensing

  • Linfeng Xu,
  • Kai-Chun Chang,
  • Emory M. Payne,
  • Cyrus Modavi,
  • Leqian Liu,
  • Claire M. Palmer,
  • Nannan Tao,
  • Hal S. Alper,
  • Robert T. Kennedy,
  • Dale S. Cornett,
  • Adam R. Abate

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27185-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The testing of engineered enzymes represents a bottleneck. Here the authors report a screening method combining microfluidics and mass spectrometry, to map the catalysis of a mutated enzyme, characterise the range of products generated and recover the sequences of variants with desired activities.