The directed evolution of orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRS) for the genetic encoding of noncanonical amino acids (ncAA) has paved the way for the site-specific incorporation of >170 functionally diverse ncAAs into proteins in a large number of organisms [1, 2]. Here, we describe the directed evolution of orthogonal pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) mutants with new amino acid selectivities from libraries using a two-step selection protocol based on chloramphenicol and barnase reporter systems. Although this protocol focuses on the evolution of PylRS variants, this procedure can be universally employed to evolve orthogonal aaRS.
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Schmidt, M. J., & Summerer, D. (2018). Directed evolution of orthogonal pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetases in Escherichia coli for the genetic encoding of noncanonical amino acids. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1728, pp. 97–111). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7574-7_5
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