In biotechnology, the areas of protein engineering and protein design deal with creating new proteins or modifying existing ones in order to modulate their properties as required for a given goal usually within the realm of the clinic/medicine or product manufacture. Example applications among a long list of potential uses include making enzymes more stable so that they will work under harsh conditions (or controllably less stable so that they can be selectively deactivated during a process), modifying their substrate profiles or precise functions, introducing new functions or regulatory mechanisms or simply knocking them down in a controlled fashion, tuning solubility or crystallizability, and even designing totally new proteins from scratch to controllably block or activate a cellular process.
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