Directed Evolution

Directed evolution is a protein engineering method that applies iterative rounds of random mutagenesis, functional screening, and gene amplification to generate biomolecules with optimized or novel properties toward user-defined objectives.

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2017–2026

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  1. FH
    Frances H. Arnold

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    46 publications · 7.5K citations

    37

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  2. MT
    Manfred T. Reetz

    Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany

    47 publications · 5.4K citations

    33

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  3. US
    Ulrich Schwaneberg

    RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    36 publications · 1.6K citations

    25

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  4. MA
    Miguel Alcalde

    Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, Spain

    27 publications · 1.6K citations

    23

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  5. UT
    Uwe T. Bornscheuer

    Universität Greifswald, Germany

    25 publications · 1.4K citations

    22

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 87 publications · 15.8K citations

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  2. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 57 publications · 5.6K citations

    42

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  3. Nucleic Acids Research

    76 publications · 6K citations

    42

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

    56 publications · 21.2K citations

    42

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  5. Protein Engineering Design and Selection

    PEDS · 99 publications · 5.7K citations

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See also

Directed Evolution

Core Methods

Applications

Variants

Evaluation

Limitations