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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 300, Issue 1, Pages 213-219Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3845
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protein engineering; viral evolution; phage display; protein libraries; M13 bacteriophage
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Using simple design and selective pressure, we have evolved an artificial M13 bacteriophage coat protein. M13 coat proteins first reside in the bacterial inner membrane and subsequently surround the DNA core of the assembled virus. The artificial coat protein (ACP) was designed and evolved to mimic both functions of the natural M13 coat proteins, but with an inverted orientation. ACP is a non-functional coat protein because it is not required for the production of phage particles. Instead, it incorporates into a phage coat which still requires all the natural coat proteins for structural integrity. In contrast with other M13 coat proteins, which can display polypeptides as aminoterminal fusions, ACP permits the carboxy-terminal display of large polypeptides. The results suggest that viruses can co-opt host membrane proteins to acquire new coat proteins and thus new functions. In particular, M13 bacteriophage can be engineered for new functions, such as carboxy-terminal phage display. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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