Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Scalable continuous evolution for the generation of diverse enzyme variants encompassing promiscuous activities

  • Gordon Rix,
  • Ella J. Watkins-Dulaney,
  • Patrick J. Almhjell,
  • Christina E. Boville,
  • Frances H. Arnold,
  • Chang C. Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19539-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Generating rich ortholog diversity for biocatalysts can be difficult due to the deep evolutionary processes involved. Here the authors use OrthoRep to rapidly evolve TrpB to produce sequence-diverse variants with altered substrate promiscuity.