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SUBMITTER: Cravens A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7952560 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cravens Aaron A Jamil Osman K OK Kong Deze D Sockolosky Jonathan T JT Smolke Christina D CD
Nature communications 20210311 1
Random mutagenesis is a technique used to generate diversity and engineer biological systems. In vivo random mutagenesis generates diversity directly in a host organism, enabling applications such as lineage tracing, continuous evolution, and protein engineering. Here we describe TRIDENT (TaRgeted In vivo Diversification ENabled by T7 RNAP), a platform for targeted, continual, and inducible diversification at genes of interest at mutation rates one-million fold higher than natural genomic error ...[more]