Optimization of multi-site nicking mutagenesis for generation of large, user-defined combinatorial libraries.
Protein Eng Des Sel
; 342021 02 15.
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Generating combinatorial libraries of specific sets of mutations are essential for addressing protein engineering questions involving contingency in molecular evolution, epistatic relationships between mutations, as well as functional antibody and enzyme engineering. Here we present optimization of a combinatorial mutagenesis method involving template-based nicking mutagenesis, which allows for the generation of libraries with >99% coverage for tens of thousands of user-defined variants. The non-optimized method resulted in low library coverage, which could be rationalized by a model of oligonucleotide annealing bias resulting from the nucleotide mismatch free-energy difference between mutagenic oligo and template. The optimized method mitigated this thermodynamic bias using longer primer sets and faster annealing conditions. Our updated method, applied to two antibody fragments, delivered between 99.0% (32451/32768 library members) to >99.9% coverage (32757/32768) for our desired libraries in 2 days and at an approximate 140-fold sequencing depth of coverage.
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Engenharia de Proteínas
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