Expanding the Nucleotide and Sugar 1-Phosphate Promiscuity of Nucleotidyltransferase RmlA via Directed Evolution.
Moretti, R., Chang, A., Peltier-Pain, P., Bingman, C.A., Phillips, G.N., Thorson, J.S.(2011) J Biol Chem 286: 13235-13243
- PubMed: 21317292 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M110.206433
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3PKP, 3PKQ - PubMed Abstract: 
Directed evolution is a valuable technique to improve enzyme activity in the absence of a priori structural knowledge, which can be typically enhanced via structure-guided strategies. In this study, a combination of both whole-gene error-prone polymerase chain reaction and site-saturation mutagenesis enabled the rapid identification of mutations that improved RmlA activity toward non-native substrates ...