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Teaching TetR to recognize a new inducer.
Journal of molecular biology - 30 May 2003
Scholz Oliver, Köstner Martin, Reich Marco, Gastiger Susanne, Hillen Wolfgang
Abstract excerpt
Tet Repressor (TetR) recognizes the inducer tetracycline (tc) with high affinity. The tc analog 4-de(dimethylamino)-6-deoxy-6-demethyl-tetracycline (cmt3) is not an inducer for TetR. Induction specificity for cmt3 was generated by employing a directed evolution approach to screen appropriate TetR mutants in four successive steps. The specificity of the best TetR mutant is more than 20,000-fold increased for cmt3...
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