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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2024

Navigating directed evolution efficiently: optimizing selection conditions and selection output analysis.

Paola Handal-Marquez, Hoai Nguyen, Vitor B Pinheiro

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Paola Handal-MarquezDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Hoai NguyenDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Vitor B PinheiroDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

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Abstract

Directed evolution is a powerful tool that can bypass gaps in our understanding of the sequence-function relationship of proteins and still isolate variants with desired activities, properties, and substrate specificities. The rise of directed evolution platforms for polymerase engineering has accelerated the isolation of xenobiotic nucleic acid (XNA) synthetases and reverse transcriptases capable of processing a wide array of unnatural XNAs which have numerous therapeutic and biotechnological applications. Still, the current generation of XNA polymerases functions with significantly lower efficiency than the natural counterparts and retains a significant level of DNA polymerase activity which limits their

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design of experimentsdirected evolutionfitness landscapenext-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysispolymerase engineering

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PMID39439528
PMCPMC11493728

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