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  • Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Enzyme Engineering

Background:

  • Directed evolution is crucial for enzyme design in biotechnology.
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae offers advantages for constructing and expressing mutant enzyme libraries.
  • In vivo homologous DNA recombination facilitates efficient library generation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and present a protocol for creating and screening mutant libraries in yeast.
  • To enhance the total activity of a fungal aryl-alcohol oxidase (AAO) using directed evolution.
  • To demonstrate a generalizable method for evolving eukaryotic genes.

Main Methods:

  • Focused-directed evolution of two protein segments via random mutagenesis and in vivo DNA recombination.
  • Construction of a fusion gene with ~50 bp overhangs for homologous recombination and plasmid reassembly.
  • Screening of mutant libraries in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a high-throughput Fenton reaction-based assay.

Main Results:

  • Successful generation of mutant libraries for fungal aryl-alcohol oxidase.
  • Demonstration of enhanced AAO activity through directed evolution in yeast.
  • Validation of the protocol for evolving eukaryotic genes.

Conclusions:

  • The described yeast-based protocol efficiently creates and screens enzyme mutant libraries.
  • This method enhances enzyme activity and is applicable to diverse eukaryotic gene evolution.
  • The protocol streamlines enzyme engineering by avoiding in vitro recombination and ligation steps.