title: PERMutation Using Transposase Engineering (PERMUTE): A Simple Approach for Constructing Circularly Permuted Protein Libraries.
abstract: Rearrangements that alter the order of a protein's sequence are used in the lab to study protein folding, improve activity, and build molecular switches. One of the simplest ways to rearrange a protein sequence is through random circular permutation, where native protein termini are linked together and new termini are created elsewhere through random backbone fission. Transposase mutagenesis has emerged as a simple way to generate libraries encoding different circularly permuted variants of proteins. With this approach, a synthetic transposon (called a permuteposon) is randomly inserted throughout a circularized gene to generate vectors that express different permuted variants of a protein. In this chapter, we outline the protocol for constructing combinatorial libraries of circularly permuted proteins using transposase mutagenesis, and we describe the different permuteposons that have been developed to facilitate library construction.
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Department, Rice University, MS-140, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Alicia M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Graduate Program, Rice University, 6100 Main MS-180, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Joshua T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Department, Rice University, MS-140, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, USA. joff@rice.edu.
authors.forename: Jonathan J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Silberg
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics; D016296:Mutagenesis / Q000235:genetics*; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019895:Transposases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D011506:Proteins; D019895:Transposases
keywords: Circular permutation; Library; Protein engineering; Transposase; Transposon