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Directed evolution to improve the catalytic efficiency of urate oxidase from Bacillus subtilis

Urate oxidase is a key enzyme in purine metabolism and catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allantoin. It is used to treat hyperuricemia and gout, and also in a diagnostic kit. In this study, error-prone polymerase chain reaction and staggered extension process was used to generate a mutant urate...

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Autores principales: Li, Wenjie, Xu, Shouteng, Zhang, Biao, Zhu, Yelin, Hua, Yan, Kong, Xin, Sun, Lianhong, Hong, Jiong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5439685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28531234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177877