Reengineering the Specificity of the Highly Selective Clostridium botulinum Protease via Directed Evolution
R. P. Dyer, H. M. Isoda, G. S. Salcedo, G. Speciale, M. H. Fletcher, L. Q. Le, Y. Liu, S. Z. Malik, E. J. Vazquez-Cintron, A. C. Chu, D. C. Rupp, B. Jacky, T. T. Nguyen, L. E. Steward, S. Majumdar, , G. A. Weiss
This study uses directed evolution to reengineer the BoNT/A protease to target SNAP23, improving its cleavage specificity and catalytic efficiency for therapeutic applications.
bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2020Biochemistry