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A Protocol for Functional Assessment of Whole-Protein Saturation Mutagenesis Libraries Utilizing High-Throughput Sequencing
Published on: July 3, 2016
Site-saturation mutagenesis: a powerful tool for structure-based design of combinatorial mutation libraries
Evangelia G Chronopoulou1, Nikolaos E Labrou1
1Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
This unit describes a method for site-saturation mutagenesis (SSM) using PCR amplification with degenerate synthetic oligonucleotides as primers. SSM allows the substitution of predetermined protein sites against all twenty possible amino acids at once. Therefore, SSM is a powerful approach in protein engineering to characterize structure-function relationships, as well as to create improved protein variants. The procedure accepts double-stranded plasmid isolated from the dam(+) E. coli strain. The procedure is simple, fast, efficient, and eliminates time-consuming subcloning and ligation steps.
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