Directed evolution and identification of control regions of ColE1 plasmid replication origins using only nucleotide deletions.

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Genes can be mutated by altering DNA content (base changes) or DNA length (insertions or deletions). Most in vitro directed evolution processes utilize nucleotide content changes to produce DNA libraries. We tested whether gain of function mutations could be identified using a mutagenic process that produced only nucleotide deletions. Short nucleotide stretches were deleted in a plasmid encoding lacZ, and...

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