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ArticleScientific reports2017

High-throughput mutagenesis using a two-fragment PCR approach.

Franziska M Heydenreich, Tamara Miljuš, Rolf Jaussi, Roger Benoit, Dalibor Milić, Dmitry B Veprintsev

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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6 authors.

Franziska M HeydenreichLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland. franziska.heydenreich@psi.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-8049-4383
Tamara MiljušLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0462-7866
Rolf JaussiLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Roger BenoitLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Dalibor MilićLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland. dalibor.milic@hhu.de.ORCID 0000-0001-5760-6677
Dmitry B VeprintsevLaboratory of Biomolecular Research, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland. dmitry.veprintsev@psi.ch.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Site-directed scanning mutagenesis is a powerful protein engineering technique which allows studies of protein functionality at single amino acid resolution and design of stabilized proteins for structural and biophysical work. However, creating libraries of hundreds of mutants remains a challenging, expensive and time-consuming process. The efficiency of the mutagenesis step is the key for fast and economical generation of such libraries. PCR artefacts such as misannealing and tandem primer repeats are often observed in mutagenesis cloning and reduce the efficiency of mutagenesis. Here we present a high-throughput mutagenesis pipeline based on established methods that significantly reduces PCR artefacts. We combined a two-fragment PCR approach, in which mutagenesis primers are used in two separate PCR reactions, with an in vitro assembly of resulting fragments. We show that this approach, despite being more laborious, is a very efficient pipeline for the creation of large libraries of mutants.

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HumansMutagenesis, Site-DirectedPolymerase Chain ReactionReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB2Receptors, VasopressinCNR2 protein, humanReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB2Receptors, Vasopressin

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PMID28754896
PMCPMC5533798

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