ArticleBMC research notes2019
Improving selectivity of DNA-RNA binding zinc finger using directed evolution.
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objectiveType C2H2 zinc fingers bind a variety of substrates, specific sequences in the double-stranded DNA counting among them. Engineering efforts led to the discovery of a set of general rules that enable obtaining zinc fingers modules that bind to almost any given sequence. The objective of this work was to determine an analogical set of rules for the binding of specific sequences in DNA-RNA hybrids using directed evolution of ZfQQR zinc finger. The target regions for evolution included the amino acid residues that directly interact with the substrate and linkers between the zinc finger modules.
resultsThe directed evolution was performed using selection based on biopanning of phage-displayed libraries of randomized regions in the ZfQQR zinc finger. The applied strategy of randomization of the middle module of the zinc finger along with input library bias and materials used for biopanning hindered the selection of the modules with altered specificity. However, the directed evolution of the linker sequence between modules enabled selection of variants with improved selectivity towards DNA-RNA hybrids in the presence of double-stranded DNA in comparison to the original ZfQQR. This confirms the necessity of linker optimization between modules in zinc finger domains.
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