| Autor: |
McCullum EO; The Biodesign Institute, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for BioOptical Nanotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA., Williams BA, Zhang J, Chaput JC |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) [Methods Mol Biol] 2010; Vol. 634, pp. 103-9. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-60761-652-8_7 |
| Abstrakt: |
In vitro selection coupled with directed evolution represents a powerful method for generating nucleic acids and proteins with desired functional properties. Creating high-quality libraries of random sequences is an important step in this process as it allows variants of individual molecules to be generated from a single-parent sequence. These libraries are then screened for individual molecules with interesting, and sometimes very rare, phenotypes. Here, we describe a general method to introduce random nucleotide mutations into a parent sequence that takes advantage of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This protocol reduces mutational bias often associated with error-prone PCR methods and allows the experimenter to control the degree of mutagenesis by controlling the number of gene-doubling events that occur in the PCR reaction. The error-prone PCR method described here was used to optimize a de novo evolved protein for improved folding stability, solubility, and ligand-binding affinity. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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