Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Efficient molecular evolution to generate enantioselective enzymes using a dual-channel microfluidic droplet screening platform

  • Fuqiang Ma,
  • Meng Ting Chung,
  • Yuan Yao,
  • Robert Nidetz,
  • Lap Man Lee,
  • Allen P. Liu,
  • Yan Feng,
  • Katsuo Kurabayashi,
  • Guang-Yu Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03492-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Optimizing an enzyme usually requires testing thousands of variants, thus consuming large amounts of material and time. Here, the authors present a method that allows for measuring two different activities of the same enzyme simultaneously instead of doing two consecutive rounds of screening.