@article{
author = "Despotovic, Dragana and Vojcic, Ljubica and Prodanović, Radivoje and Martinez, Ronny and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Schwaneberg, Ulrich",
year = "2012",
abstract = "Directed evolution offers opportunities to improve promiscuous activities of hydrolases in rounds of diversity generation and high-throughput screening. In this article, we developed and validated a screening platform to improve the perhydrolytic activity of proteases and likely other hydrolases (e.g., lipases or esterases). Key was the development of a highly sensitive fluorescent assay (sensitivity in the mu M range) based on 3-carboxy-7-hydroxycoumarin (HCC) formation. HCC is released through an hypobromite-mediated oxidation of 7-(4'-aminophenoxy)-3-carboxycoumarin (APCC), which enables for the first time a continuous measurement of peroxycarboxylic acid formation with a standard deviation of 11% in microtiter plates with a wide pH range window (5-9). As example, subtilisin Carlsberg was subjected to site saturation mutagenesis at position G165, yielding a variant T58A/G165L/L216W with 5.4-fold increased k(cat) for perhydrolytic activity compared with wild type.",
publisher = "Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks",
journal = "Journal of Biomolecular Screening",
title = "Fluorescent Assay for Directed Evolution of Perhydrolases",
volume = "17",
number = "6",
pages = "796-805",
doi = "10.1177/1087057112438464"
}