Abstract
Improvement of the biochemical characteristics of enzymes has been aided by misincorporation mutagenesis and DNA shuffling. Shuffling techniques can be used on a collection of mutants of the same gene, or related families of genes can be shuffled to produce mutants encoding chimeric gene products. One difficulty with current shuffling procedures is the predominance of unshuffled (“parental”) molecules in the pool of mutants. We describe a procedure for gene shuffling using degenerate primers that allows control of the relative levels of recombination between the genes that are shuffled and reduces the regeneration of unshuffled parental genes. This procedure has the advantage of avoiding the use of endonucleases for gene fragmentation before shuffling and allows the use of random mutagenesis of selected segments of the gene as part of the procedure. We illustrate the use of the technique with a diverse family of β-xylanase genes that possess widely different G and C contents.
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Bergquist, P.L., Gibbs, M.D. (2007). Degenerate Oligonucleotide Gene Shuffling. In: Arndt, K.M., Müller, K.M. (eds) Protein Engineering Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 352. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59745-187-8:191
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