Contributors .................................................. vii
Preface ........................................................ ix
PART A NEW APPROACHES TO FINDING AND MODIFYING ENZYMES ......... 1
1 Functional Metagenomics as a Technique for the Discovery of
Novel Enzymes and Natural Products ........................... 3
Luke А. Мое, Matthew D. McMahon, and Michael G. Thomas
2 Directed Enzyme and Pathway Evolution ....................... 41
Jacob Vick and Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
3 Combining Natural Biodiversity and Molecular-Directed
Evolution to Develop New Industrial Biocatalysts and
Drugs ....................................................... 77
Laurent Fourage, Céline Ayrinhac, Johann Brot, Christophe
Ullmann, Denis Wahler, and Jean-Marie Sonet
4 Principles of Enzyme Optimization for the Rapid Creation
of Industrial Biocatalysts .................................. 99
Richard J. Fox and Lori Giver
PART В BIOCATALYTIC APPLICATIONS ............................. 125
5 Enzyme Catalysis in the Synthesis of Active
Pharmaceutical Ingredients ................................. 127
Animesh Goswami
6 Enzymatic Processes for the Production of Pharmaceutical
Intermediates .............................................. 185
David Rozzell and Jim Lalonde
7 Novel Developments Employing Redox Enzymes: Old Enzymes
in New Clothes ............................................. 199
Kurt Faber, Silvia M. Glueck, Birgit Seisser, and
Wolfgang Kroutil
PART С BIOSYNTHETIC APPLICATIONS ............................. 251
8 Drug Discovery and Development by Combinatorial
Biosynthesis ............................................... 253
Matthew A. DeSieno, Carl A. Denard, and Huimin Zhao
9 Reprogramming Daptomycin and A54145 Biosynthesis to
Produce Novel Lipopeptide Antibiotics ...................... 285
Richard H. Baltz, Kien Т. Nguyen, and Dylan C. Alexander
10 Pathway and Enzyme Engineering and Applications for
Glycodiversification ....................................... 309
Lishan Zhao and Hung-wen Liu
Index ......................................................... 363
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