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Protein Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 10, 843-853, October 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Construction of block-shuffled libraries of DNA for evolutionary protein engineering: Y-ligation-based block shuffling

Koichiro Kitamura1, Yasunori Kinoshita1, Shinsuke Narasaki1, Naoto Nemoto2, Yuzuru Husimi1 and Koichi Nishigaki1,3

1 Department of Functional Materials Science, Saitama University,255 Shimo-Okubo, Saitama 338-8570 and 2 GenCom Co., 11 Minami-Oya, Machida 194-8511, Japan

Evolutionary protein engineering is now proceeding to a new stage in which novel technologies, besides the conventional point mutations, to generate a library of proteins, are required. In this context, a novel method for shuffling and rearranging DNA blocks (leading to protein libraries) is reported. A cycle of processes for producing combinatorial diversity was devised and designated Y-ligation-based block shuffling (YLBS). Methodological refinement was made by applying it to the shuffling of module-sized and amino acid-sized blocks. Running three cycles of YLBS with module-sized GFP blocks resulted in a high diversity of an eight-block shuffled library. Partial shuffling of the central four blocks of GFP was performed to obtain in-effect shuffled protein, resulting in an intact arrangement. Shuffling of amino acid monomer-sized blocks by YLBS was also performed and a diversity of more than 1010 shuffled molecules was attained. The deletion problems encountered during these experiments were shown to be solved by additional measures which tame type IIS restriction enzymes. The frequency of appearance of each block was skewed but was within a permissible range. Therefore, YLBS is the first general method for generating a huge diversity of shuffled proteins, recombining domains, exons and modules with ease.


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