TY - JOUR
T1 - A general strategy for random insertion and substitution mutagenesis
T2 - Substoichiometric coupling of trinucleotide phosphoramidites
AU - Sondek, John
AU - Shortle, David
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Results from a number of recent studies suggest that amino acid insertion mutations may provide an important alternative to substitution mutations for modifying protein structures and functional activities. To facilitate the use of single-amino acid insertions, we have developed a general strategy for inducing random, in-phase codon insertions across a defined segment of a cloned gene. In brief, a mixture of blocked and protected trinucleotide phosphoramidites is coupled at substoichiometric levels after every third monomer coupling on a conventional solid-state synthesizer. From the heterogeneous mixture of oligonucleotide sequences thus generated, those oligonucleotides that have acquired a single additional codon are purified by urea/PAGE. By using equimolar amounts of GCT and GGT trinucleotides in the oligonucleotide synthesis plus standard oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis techniques, we have induced as many as 13 different single alanine and glycine insertion mutations into the gene for staphylococcal nuclease in one experiment. On replacement of the 5′-dimethoxytrityl blocking group on the trinucleotide phosphoramidite with an acid-stable blocking group, such as levulinate or fluoren-9-ylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc), this same strategy of substoichiometric couplings at codon boundaries should permit the synthesis of complex pools of oligonucleotides for the introduction, with constant efficiency, of every type of amino acid substitution at each codon across a gene segment.
AB - Results from a number of recent studies suggest that amino acid insertion mutations may provide an important alternative to substitution mutations for modifying protein structures and functional activities. To facilitate the use of single-amino acid insertions, we have developed a general strategy for inducing random, in-phase codon insertions across a defined segment of a cloned gene. In brief, a mixture of blocked and protected trinucleotide phosphoramidites is coupled at substoichiometric levels after every third monomer coupling on a conventional solid-state synthesizer. From the heterogeneous mixture of oligonucleotide sequences thus generated, those oligonucleotides that have acquired a single additional codon are purified by urea/PAGE. By using equimolar amounts of GCT and GGT trinucleotides in the oligonucleotide synthesis plus standard oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis techniques, we have induced as many as 13 different single alanine and glycine insertion mutations into the gene for staphylococcal nuclease in one experiment. On replacement of the 5′-dimethoxytrityl blocking group on the trinucleotide phosphoramidite with an acid-stable blocking group, such as levulinate or fluoren-9-ylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc), this same strategy of substoichiometric couplings at codon boundaries should permit the synthesis of complex pools of oligonucleotides for the introduction, with constant efficiency, of every type of amino acid substitution at each codon across a gene segment.
KW - Mutant proteins
KW - Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis
KW - Site-directed mutagenesis
KW - Staphylococcal nuclease
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.89.8.3581
DO - 10.1073/pnas.89.8.3581
M3 - Article
C2 - 1565654
AN - SCOPUS:0026522464
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 89
SP - 3581
EP - 3585
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 8
ER -