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Increased Diels-Alderase activity through backbone remodeling guided by Foldit players

Christopher B Eiben1, Justin B Siegel, Jacob B Bale

  • 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Nature Biotechnology
|January 24, 2012
PubMed
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Crowdsourcing via the Foldit game enhanced a computationally designed enzyme

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