Quantitative characterization of all single amino acid variants of a viral capsid-based drug delivery vehicle

oleh: Emily C. Hartman, Christopher M. Jakobson, Andrew H. Favor, Marco J. Lobba, Ester Álvarez-Benedicto, Matthew B. Francis, Danielle Tullman-Ercek

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-04-01

Deskripsi

Self-assembling proteins have important applications in industrial technologies, but it is difficult to predict how mutations affect assembly. Here the authors present SyMAPS, coupling comprehensive codon mutagenesis with high-throughput sequencing, and apply it to bacteriophage capsid protein.