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ReviewNature methods2021

Directed evolution in mammalian cells.

Samuel J Hendel, Matthew D Shoulders

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Review in Nature methods, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Anti-CRISPR-mediated continuous directed evolution of CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. In vivo directed evolution of an ultrafast Rubisco from a semianaerobic environment imparts oxygen resistance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. REPLACE-ing RNA through evolution.Nature chemical biology · 2025
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  15. Viral Live-Attenuated Vaccines (LAVs): Past and Future Directions.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  18. MutaT7ACS synthetic biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Samuel J HendelDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Matthew D ShouldersDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. mshoulde@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6511-3431

Funding

Leveraging Next-Generation Directed Evolution Platforms and Chemical Control of Proteostasis to Deliver Robust Biotechnologies and Illuminate Roles of Chaperone Networks in Protein EvolutionR35GM136354 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SHOULDERS, MATTHEW DONALD · 2020 to 2024
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Directed evolution experiments are typically carried out using in vitro systems, bacteria, or yeast-even when the goal is to probe or modulate mammalian biology. Performing directed evolution in systems that do not match the intended mammalian environment severely constrains the scope and functionality of the targets that can be evolved. We review new platforms that are now making it possible to use the mammalian cell itself as the setting for directed evolution and present an overview of frontier challenges and high-impact targets for this approach.

Indexed as

Directed Molecular EvolutionAnimalsHumansMutagenesis

Identifiers

PMID33828274
PMCPMC8063495

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