Natural proteins often need to be engineered before being used in industrial processes or pharmaceutical products. Usually this is done by creating large numbers of random mutations in the protein using directed evolution technologies and picking up improved variants using a suitable screening system. Despite the recent accomplishments in directed evolution, several rounds of screening are necessary to achieve sufficient optimization improvement, which is often infeasible both experimentally and financially.
Our expertise in protein engineering stems from more than 10 years of experience. We create mutant proteins based on robust analysis where we combine in silico energy predictions with our vast know-how in protein evolution. As a result, we end up creating and screening just a handful of mutant proteins instead of hundreds or thousands of them.
Proteins and enzymes can be evolved towards a variety of properties, such as thermal stability, protease or solvent resistance, solubility, activity, substrate specificity, substrate or product inhibition, enantioselectivity, pH profile, etc.
We also provide protein analytical services for your specific projects. We perform a number of routine protein analyses throughout all project stages to ensure the identity, purity, structural and conformational integrity, and activity of a protein.
Analytical techniques within our platform:
- SDS electrophoresis and densitometry
- Analytical size-exclusion chromatography
- Light scattering
- Native gel electrophoresis
- Capillary electrophoresis
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Circular dichroism
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Spectrophotometric assays
Related services:
- Protein expression
- Protein separation and purification
- Protein lyophilization
- Protein immobilization
- Protein crystallization
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular modelling
To find out more about our protein services, contact us.