RE: 'Directed' evolution?

Kevin L. O'Brien (klob@lamar.colostate.edu)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:18:41 -0600

Greetings Tim:

"For example, if the decrease in an enzyme's specificity represents a
decrease in 'information' could we turn this around and say that an
increase in an enzyme's affinity for a particular substrate represented an
increase in 'information'?"

It certainly would. Especially if it acquired an affinity for a substrate
no enzyme had ever recognized before.

Kevin L. O'Brien

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