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ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 2236-2244Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00245
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site-directed mutagenesis; CRISPR/Cas9; T5 exonuclease; saturation mutagenesis; protein engineering; PCR-free mutagenesis
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The quality and efficiency of any PCR-based mutagenesis technique may not be optimal due to, among other things, amino acid bias, which means that the development of efficient PCR-free methods is desirable. Here, we present a highly efficient in vitro CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenic (ICM) system that allows rapid construction of designed mutants in a PCR-free manner. First, it involves plasmid digestion by utilizing a complex of Cas9 with specific single guide RNA (sgRNA) followed by degradation with T5 exonuclease to generate a 15 nt homologous region. Second, primers containing the desired mutations are annealed to form the double-stranded DNA fragments, which are then ligated into the linearized plasmid. In theory, neither the size of the target plasmid nor the unavailable restriction enzyme site poses any problems that may arise in traditional techniques. In this study, single and multiple site-directed mutagenesis were successfully performed even for a large size plasmid (up to 9.0 kb). Moreover, a PCR-free site-saturation mutagenesis library on single site and two adjacent sites of a green fluorescent protein was also generated with promising results. This demonstrates the great potential of the ICM system for creating high-quality mutant libraries in directed evolution as an alternative to PCR-based saturation mutagenesis, thus facilitating research on synthetic biology.
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