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ReviewBioengineered2015

Directed evolution combined with synthetic biology strategies expedite semi-rational engineering of genes and genomes.

Zhen Kang, Junli Zhang, Peng Jin, Sen Yang

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Review in Bioengineered, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zhen Kanga Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology; Ministry of Education ; Jiangnan University ; Wuxi , Jiangsu China.
Junli Zhang
Peng Jin
Sen Yang

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Owing to our limited understanding of the relationship between sequence and function and the interaction between intracellular pathways and regulatory systems, the rational design of enzyme-coding genes and de novo assembly of a brand-new artificial genome for a desired functionality or phenotype are difficult to achieve. As an alternative approach, directed evolution has been widely used to engineer genomes and enzyme-coding genes. In particular, significant developments toward DNA synthesis, DNA assembly (in vitro or in vivo), recombination-mediated genetic engineering, and high-throughput screening techniques in the field of synthetic biology have been matured and widely adopted, enabling rapid semi-rational genome engineering to generate variants with desired properties. In this commentary, these novel tools and their corresponding applications in the directed evolution of genomes and enzymes are discussed. Moreover, the strategies for genome engineering and rapid in vitro enzyme evolution are also proposed.

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Directed Molecular EvolutionDNADNA FragmentationGenomeHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysPhenotypeSynthetic BiologyDNAdirected evolutionDNA assemblydsDNA, double-stranded DNAenzymegenome engineeringHTS, high-throughput screeningLCR, Ligase Cycling ReactionMAGE, multiplex automated genome engineeringmetabolic engineeringrecombineeringssDNA, single-stranded DNAsynthetic biology

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PMID25621864
PMCPMC4601291

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