Ultrahigh-Throughput Enzyme Engineering and Discovery in In Vitro Compartments

M Gantz, S Neun, EJ Medcalf, LD van Vliet… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Novel and improved biocatalysts are increasingly sourced from libraries via experimental
screening. The success of such campaigns is crucially dependent on the number of …

[HTML][HTML] 30 years of microfluidics

N Convery, N Gadegaard - Micro and Nano Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidics provides a great opportunity to create devices capable of outperforming
classical techniques in biomedical and chemical research. In this review, the origins of this …

Single-cell barcoding and sequencing using droplet microfluidics

R Zilionis, J Nainys, A Veres, V Savova, D Zemmour… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing has recently emerged as a powerful tool for map** cellular
heterogeneity in diseased and healthy tissues, yet high-throughput methods are needed for …

Droplet-based microfluidics in biomedical applications

L Amirifar, M Besanjideh, R Nasiri, A Shamloo… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Advanced design and applications of digital microfluidics in biomedical fields: An update of recent progress

C Yang, X Gan, Y Zeng, Z Xu, L Xu, C Hu, H Ma… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Significant breakthroughs have been made in digital microfluidic (DMF)-based technologies
over the past decades. DMF technology has attracted great interest in bioassays depending …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: new tools and their applications

J Lian, S Mishra, H Zhao - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Metabolic engineering aims to develop efficient cell factories by rewiring cellular
metabolism. As one of the most commonly used cell factories, Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

The Poisson distribution and beyond: methods for microfluidic droplet production and single cell encapsulation

DJ Collins, A Neild, A DeMello, AQ Liu, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a recognized and growing need for rapid and efficient cell assays, where the size of
microfluidic devices lend themselves to the manipulation of cellular populations down to the …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD **, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

Ultrahigh-throughput–directed enzyme evolution by absorbance-activated droplet sorting (AADS)

F Gielen, R Hours, S Emond, M Fischlechner… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Ultrahigh-throughput screening, in which members of enzyme libraries compartmentalized
in water-in-oil emulsion droplets are assayed, has emerged as a powerful format for directed …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …