Molecular Cloning Fourth Edition, A Laboratory Manual, by Michael R. Green and Joseph Sambrook

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Multisite-Directed Mutagenesis

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Most of the PCR-based methods of mutagenesis currently in use are direct descendants of techniques originally described in the late 1980s, soon after the introduction of thermostable DNA polymerases to PCR (Higuchi et al. 1988; Ho et al. 1989; Vallette et al. 1989). PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) methods are widely used in molecular biology to selectively change the sequence of genes and to gain insight into their function. The early protocols allowed for the introduction of only one or two point mutations at a time (see Protocol 2), but more recently, several protocols for mutagenesis have been developed that create multiple independent mutations with high efficiency (Mikaelian and Sergeant 1992; Ishii et al. 1998; Kim and Maas 2000), and several commercial kits are now available. Most of them are not suitable for both general multisite-directed and close-proximity mutagenesis. Some methods require phosphorylated primers at the 5 end, and others require more rounds of PCR than the number of mutation sites to be introduced.


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