Code
3S007716
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Biocatalysis and enzyme technology
Keywords
ancestral sequence reconstruction
enzyme engineering
glycoside phosphorylases
Project description
The specificity of enzymes van be changed through enzyme engineering. However, enzymes are typically very specialised, which often causes classical approaches to fall short. Therefore, less specialised protein sequences will be reconstructed in this project, which can then be used as a starting point for further engineering. Using this strategy, glycosyltransferases will be converted to industrially relevant glycoside phosphorylases.