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Green Chemistry |
Why use biocatalysis? Green chemistry & Catalytic power of enzymes
Why proteins need engineering: stability, optimization for new substrate, new metabolic pathways |
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Enzyme Stability |
Measuring Enzyme Enantioselectivity - stereoisomers, enantiomers, kinetic resolution, asymmetric synthesis, pharmaceutical intermediates
Measuring Enzyme Enantioselectivity and Rates - Michaelis-Menten Kinetics, kinetic resolution, asymmetric synthesis, other metrics to measure rate |
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Enzyme Stability, Selectivity |
Looking at protein structures - protein data bank, Pymol, lactate dehydrogenase
Rational design of more stable enzymes - entropy, hydrophobic effect, helix capping, molten globule |
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Enzyme Selectivity |
Improving selectivity by rational design - intermolecular forces, changing substrate specificity, enantioselectivity mechanisms
Designing faster enzymes - diffusion limit, transition state stabilization, perhydrolysis |
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Enzyme Selectivity |
Designing faster enzymes, pt 2 - chorimate mutase, triosphosphate isomerase, weak binding of substrate.
Computer modeling: molecular mechanics - multiple properties, qualitative design, force fields, atom types |
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Engineering Selectivity |
Enzyme modeling using molecular mechanics - Amber, MM2, FoldX
Modeling to predict protein improvement - stability, molecular dynamics, QM/MM methods |
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Circular Permutation /Selectivity |
Guest lecture (tentative)
Modeling to predict protein improvement - enantioselectivity, bioinformatics, consensus sequence |
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Circular Permutation /Selectivity |
Guest lecture (tentative)
Modeling to predict protein improvement - enantioselectivity, bioinformatics, consensus sequence |
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Exam 1 |
Exam 1 |
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Design faster enzymes |
1. Overview of directed evolution: screening, random mutagenesis
2. Mutagenesis using error prone PCR - methods, polymerase fidelity
3. Mutagenesis using error prone PCR - limitations, codon redundancy |
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Mutagenesis Single Substitution |
1. Mutagenesis using recombination methods - chimeras & DNA shuffling,
2. Mutagenesis using recombination methods - limitations, homology
3. Mutagenesis using recombination methods - alternative methods, non-homologous recombination, |
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Multiple Substitutions |
1. Focused substitutions at a single site, saturation mutagenesis methods, degenerate codons
2. Focused substitutions at a single site, choosing locations for mutagenesis
Combining substitutions at multiple sites, stepwise approaches |
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Recombination Methods |
Combining substitutions at multiple sites, simultaneous, reduced amino acid sets
Other mutagenesis approaches insertions, deletions, circular permutations |
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Screening |
Neutral drift libraries - evolutionary justification
Incorporating unnatural amino acids, stop codon translation, substitutions using by feeding auxotrophic strains |
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in class presentations |
in class presentations |
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Exam 2 |
Exam 2 |
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