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Split & mix assembly of DNA libraries for ultrahigh throughput on-bead screening of functional proteins.

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

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Authors

Lindenburg, Laurens 
Huovinen, Tuomas 
van de Wiel, Kayleigh 
Herger, Michael 
Snaith, Michael R 

Abstract

Site-saturation libraries reduce protein screening effort in directed evolution campaigns by focusing on a limited number of rationally chosen residues. However, uneven library synthesis efficiency leads to amino acid bias, remedied at high cost by expensive custom synthesis of oligonucleotides, or through use of proprietary library synthesis platforms. To address these shortcomings, we have devised a method where DNA libraries are constructed on the surface of microbeads by ligating dsDNA fragments onto growing, surface-immobilised DNA, in iterative split-and-mix cycles. This method-termed SpliMLiB for Split-and-Mix Library on Beads-was applied towards the directed evolution of an anti-IgE Affibody (ZIgE), generating a 160,000-membered, 4-site, saturation library on the surface of 8 million monoclonal beads. Deep sequencing confirmed excellent library balance (5.1% ± 0.77 per amino acid) and coverage (99.3%). As SpliMLiB beads are monoclonal, they were amenable to direct functional screening in water-in-oil emulsion droplets with cell-free expression. A FACS-based sorting of the library beads allowed recovery of hits improved in Kd over wild-type ZIgE by up to 3.5-fold, while a consensus mutant of the best hits provided a 10-fold improvement. With SpliMLiB, directed evolution workflows are accelerated by integrating high-quality DNA library generation with an ultra-high throughput protein screening platform.

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Keywords

Cloning, Molecular, Consensus Sequence, DNA, Gene Library, High-Throughput Screening Assays, Immobilized Nucleic Acids, Microspheres, Mutation, Phosphorylation, Proteins

Journal Title

Nucleic Acids Res

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

0305-1048
1362-4962

Volume Title

48

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
European Commission (659029)
European Commission (660077)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) ERC (695664)
ERC, EU H2020