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ReviewJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)2025

Recent advances in targeted mutagenesis to expedite the evolution of biological systems.

Seungjin Kim, Seungwon Lee, Hyun Gyu Lim

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Review in Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Advancing microbial engineering through synthetic biology.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Seungjin KimDepartment of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea.
Seungwon LeeDepartment of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea.
Hyun Gyu LimDepartment of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea.

Funding

Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2024- 00334792Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2024-00399277National Research Foundation of Korea
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evolution has been systematically exploited to engineer biological systems to obtain improved or novel functionalities by selecting beneficial mutations. Recent innovations in continuous targeted mutagenesis within living cells have emerged to generate large sequence diversities without requiring multiple steps. This review comprehensively introduces recent advancements in this field, categorizing them into three approaches depending on methods to create mutations: orthogonal error-prone DNA polymerases, site-specific base editors, and homologous recombination of mutagenic DNA fragments. Combined with high-throughput screening methods, these advances expedited evolution processes with significant reduction of labor and time. These approaches promise broader industrial and research applications, including enzyme improvement, metabolic engineering, and drug resistance studies.

Indexed as

Directed Molecular EvolutionMutagenesisMutagenesis, Site-DirectedDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseEvolution, MolecularHomologous RecombinationMetabolic EngineeringMutationDNA-Directed DNA Polymerasecontinuous evolutiondirected evolutionmutationssynthetic biologytargeted mutagenesis

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PMID40195835
PMCPMC13577105

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