Protein Engineering

A topic within Biotechnology, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Biology.

Reading on Protein Engineering

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Talk2018

Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life

Frances H. Arnold

Argues that directed evolution - mutating a gene at random and screening for improvement - lets chemists create enzymes for reactions nothing in nature ever evolved to do, without having to understand the protein first.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Biology · Biotechnology

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Paper1985

Rapid and Efficient Site-Specific Mutagenesis without Phenotypic Selection

Thomas A. Kunkel

Describes a method for introducing a chosen mutation anywhere in a cloned gene without needing to screen for it, which became the standard tool for engineering proteins by design.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Biology · Biotechnology

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