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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2005, p. 754-760, Vol. 71, No. 2
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AEM.71.2.754-760.2005
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Takafumi Mukaihara,1,
Yoshiko Uesugi,1
Masaki Iwabuchi,1 and
Tadashi Hatanaka1*
Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Okayama, Japan1
Received 11 May 2004/ Accepted 20 September 2004
We describe a novel method of random chimeragenesis based on highly frequent deletion formation in the Escherichia coli ssb-3 strain and a deletion-directed chimera selection system that uses the rpsL+ gene as a reporter. It enables the selection of chimeras without target gene expression and can therefore be applied to cytotoxic targets. When this system was applied to phospholipase D genes from Streptomyces septatus TH-2 and Streptomyces halstedii subsp. scabies K6 (examples of cytotoxic targets), chimeragenesis occurred between short identical sequences at the corresponding position of the parental genes with large variations. Chimeragenesis was >1,000 times more frequent in the ssb-3 background than in the ssb+ background. We called this system repeat-length-independent broad-spectrum shuffling. It enables the convenient chimeragenesis and functional study of chimeric proteins. In fact, we found two amino acid residues related to the thermostability of phospholipase D (Phe426 and Thr433) by comparing thermostability among the chimeric enzymes obtained.
K.M. and T.M. contributed equally to this work.
Present address: Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
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