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ACS OMEGA
Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 3183-3191Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b00508
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- Core Facility of Oligonucleotide Synthesis and DNA Sequencing of the Institute of Biothecnology
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In vitro mutagenesis methods have revolutionized biological research and the biotechnology industry. In this study, we describe a mutagenesis method based on synthesizing a gene using a complete set of forward and reverse spiked oligonucleotides that have been modified to introduce a low ratio of mutant nucleotides at each position. This novel mutagenesis scheme named Spiked Genes yields a library of clones with an enhanced mutation distribution due to its unbiased nucleotide incorporation. Using the far-red fluorescent protein emKate as a model, we demonstrated that Spiked Genes yields richer libraries than those obtained via enzymatic methods. We obtained a library without bias toward any nucleotide or base pair and with even mutations, transitions, and transversion frequencies. Compared with enzymatic methods, the proposed synthetic approach for the creation of gene libraries represents an improved strategy for screening protein variants and does not require a starting template.
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