Abstract
Beyond the natural proteome, high-throughput mutagenesis offers the protein engineer an opportunity to “tweak” the wild-type activity of a protein to create a recombinant protein with required attributes. Of the various approaches available, saturation mutagenesis is one of the core techniques employed by protein engineers and in recent times, nondegenerate saturation mutagenesis is emerging as the approach of choice. This review compares the current methodologies available for conducting nondegenerate saturation mutagenesis with traditional, degenerate saturation and briefly outlines the options available for screening the resulting libraries, to discover a novel protein with the required activity and/or specificity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 111-133 |
Journal | Methods in Enzymology |
Volume | 585 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Proteomics in biology, part A ISBN: 978-0-1280-9742-7.© 2016, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords
- gene shuffling
- molecular evolution
- directed evolution
- synthetic biology
- saturation mutagenesis
- non-degenerate
- diversity
- protein engineering
- antibody engineering