Enzymes in Synthetic Biology

Section I: Enzyme Discovery 1. Enzyme Discovery: Enzyme Selection and Pathway Design P. Carbonell, Mathilde Koch, Thomas Duigou and J.L. FaulonSection II: Enzyme Engineering Tools and Platforms 2. Cell-Free Synthetic Biology for Pathway Prototyping Ashty S. Karim and Michael C. Jewett 3. Fast and Flexible Synthesis of Combinatorial Libraries for Directed Evolution Joanna C. Sadler, Lucy Green, Neil Swainston, Douglas B. Kell and Andrew CurrinSection III: Enzyme Families: Parts and Platforms for Chemical Diversity 4. Sesquiterpene Synthase Catalyzed Conversion of a Farnesyl Diphosphate Analogue to a Non-natural Terpenoid Ether Florence Huynh David J. Miller and Rudolf K. Allemann 5. In Vivo Platforms for Terpenoid Overproduction and the Generation of Chemical Diversity Guangkai Bian, Tian Ma and Tiangang Liu 6. Imine Reductases, Reductive Aminases, and Amine Oxidases for the Synthesis of Chiral Amines: Discovery, Characterization, and Synthetic Applications S.C. Cosgrove, A. Brzezniak, S.P. France, J.I. Ramsden, J. Mangas-Sanchez, S.L. Montgomery, R.S. Heath and N.J. Turner 7. Experimental Protocols for Generating Focused Mutant Libraries and Screening for Thermostable Proteins M.J.L.J. Fürst, C. Martin, N. Loncar and M.W. Fraaije 8. Characterization of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and their Applications in Synthetic Biology L. N. Jeffreys, H. M. Girvan, K. J. McLean and A. W. MunroSection IV: Genome Engineering for Enzyme Pathways 9. Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Using a Trifunctional CRISPR/Cas System for Simultaneous Gene Activation, Interference, and Deletion Carl Schultz, Jiazhang Lian and Huimin Zhao 10. YeastFab: High Throughput Genetic Parts Construction, Measurement and Pathway Engineering in Yeast Eva Garcia-Ruiz, Jamie Auxillos, Tianyi Li, Junbiao Dai and Yizhi CaiSection V: Bioengineered Strains with Designed Enzyme Pathways 11. Halomonas and Pathway Engineering for Bioplastics Production Jiang Xiao-Ran, Yin Jin, Chen Xiangbin and Chen