Protein Engineering Handbook

Unparalleled in size and scope, this new major reference integrates academic and industrial knowledge into a single resource, allowing for a unique overview of the entire field. Adopting a systematic and practice-oriented approach, and including a wide range of technical and methodological information, this highly accessible handbook is an invaluable 'toolbox' for any bioengineer. In two massive volumes, it covers the full spectrum of current concepts, methods and application areas.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME 1 Guidelines for the Functional Analysis of Engineered and Mutant Enzymes Engineering Enantioselectivity in Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions Mechanism and Catalytic Promiscuity: Emerging Mechanistic Principles for Identification and Manipulation of Catalytically Promiscuous Enzymes Phi-Value Analysis of Protein Folding Transition States Protein Folding and Solubility: Pathways and High-Throughput Assays Protein Dynamics and the Evolution of Novel Protein Function Gaining Insight into Enzyme Function through Correlation with Protein Motions Structural Frameworks Suitable for Engineering Microbes and Enzymes: Recent Trends and New Directions to Expand Protein Space Inteins in Protein Engineering From Prospecting to Product - Industrial Metagenomics Is Coming of Age Computational Protein Design Assessing and Exploiting the Persistence of Substrate Ambiguity in Modern Protein Catalysts Designing Programmable Protein Switches The Cyclization of Peptides and Proteins with Inteins VOLUME 2 A Method for Rapid Directed Evolution Evolution of Enantioselective Bacillus subtilis Lipase Circular Permutation of Proteins Incorporating Synthetic Oligonucleotides via Gene Reassembly (ISOR): A Versatile Tool for Generating Targeted Libraries Protein Engineering by Structure-Guided SCHEMA Recombination Chimeragenesis in Protein Engineering Protein Generation Using a Reconstituted System Equipping in vivo Selection Systems with Tunable Stringency Protein Engineering by Phage Display Screening Methodologies for Glycosidic Bond Formation Yeast Surface Display in Protein Engineering and Analysis In Vitro Compartmentalization (IVC) and Other High-Throughput Screens of Enzyme Libraries Colorimetric and Fluorescence-Based Screening Confocal and Conventional Fluorescence-Based High Throughput Screening in Protein Engineering 30 Alteration of Substrate Specificity and Stereoselectivity of Lipases and Esterases Altering Enzyme Substrate and Cofactor Specificity via Protein Engineering Protein Engineering of Modular Polyketide Synthases Cyanophycin Synthetases Biosynthetic Pathway Engineering Strategies Natural Polyester-Related Proteins: Structure, Function, Evolution and Engineering Bioengineering of Sequence-Repetitive Polypeptides: Synthetic Routes to Protein-Based Materials of Novel Structure and Function Silk Proteins - Biomaterials and Bioengineering

About the Author :
Stefan Lutz holds a B. S. degree from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), and a M.S. degree from the University of Teesside (UK). He then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Florida and spent three years as a Postdoc with Stephen Benkovic at Pennsylvania State University under a fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2002 he has been a Chemistry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). The research in the Lutz laboratory focuses on the structure-function relationship of proteins through combinatorial protein engineering. Uwe Bornscheuer studied Chemistry at the University of Hannover (Germany), where he obtained a Ph. D. at the Institute of Technical Chemistry. He then spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Nagoya, Japan, before returning to Germany to join the Institute of Technical Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. Since 1999 he has been Professor for Biotechnology and Enzyme Catalysis at the University of Greifswald. His main research interest is the application of engineered enzymes in the synthesis of optically active compounds and in lipid modification.

Review :
"Stefan Lutz and Uwe Bornscheuer did a great job! By convincing many of the key players in the field to contribute to this two volume masterpiece, they managed to assemble basically all aspects of modern protein engineering technology under one roof, that is, between four hard covers." (Angewandte Chemie, February 2010) "The Protein Engineering Handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of the highly cross-disciplinary field of protein engineering that many researchers and students have been eagerly awaiting." (ChemBioChem, August 2009)