In Vitro Mutagenesis Protocols

• Mutagenesis in Various Microbial Backgrounds.- Mutagenesis Protocols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by In Vivo Overlap Extension.- In Vitro Mutagenesis of Brucella Species.- Random Mutagenesis Strategies for Campylobacter and Helicobacter Species.- Mutagenesis of the Repeat Regions of Herpesviruses Cloned as Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes.- An Efficient Protocol for VZV BAC-Based Mutagenesis.- A Method for Rapid Genetic Integration into Plasmodium falciparum Utilizing Mycobacteriophage Bxb1 Integrase.- PCR Mutagenesis.- Random Mutagenesis by Error-Prone PCR.- A Rapid and Versatile PCR-Based Site-Directed Mutagenesis Protocol for Generation of Mutations Along the Entire Length of a Cloned cDNA.- Rapid Sequence Scanning Mutagenesis Using In Silico Oligo Design and the Megaprimer PCR of Whole Plasmid Method (MegaWHOP).- Insertion and Deletion Mutagenesis by Overlap Extension PCR.- Targeted Amplification of Mutant Strands for Efficient Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Mutant Screening.- A Modified Inverse PCR Procedure for Insertion, Deletion, or Replacement of a DNA Fragment in a Target Sequence and Its Application in the Ligand Interaction Scan Method for Generation of Ligand-Regulated Proteins.- Amplification of Orthologous Genes Using Degenerate Primers.- Reviews.- Computational Evaluation of Protein Stability Change upon Mutations.- Approaches for Using Animal Models to Identify Loci That Genetically Interact with Human Disease-Causing Point Mutations.- Protein Evolution Mutagenesis.- Using Peptide Loop Insertion Mutagenesis for the Evolution of Proteins.- Massive Mutagenesis®: High-Throughput Combinatorial Site-Directed Mutagenesis.- Directed In Vitro Evolution of Reporter Genes Based on Semi-Rational Design and High-Throughput Screening.- Ribosome Display for RapidProtein Evolution by Consecutive Rounds of Mutation and Selection.- Protein Structure and Function Mutagenesis.- Fine-Tuning Enzyme Activity Through Saturation Mutagenesis.- Characterization of Structural Determinants of Type 1 Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) Receptor Signalling Properties.- Site-Directed Mutagenesis for Improving Biophysical Properties of VH Domains.- Phenotype Based Functional Gene Screening Using Retrovirus-Mediated Gene Trapping in Quasi-Haploid RAW 264.7 Cells.- Site-Directed Disulfide Cross-Linking to Probe Conformational Changes of a Transporter During Its Functional Cycle: Escherichia coli AcrB Multidrug Exporter as an Example.- Site-Specific Incorporation of Extra Components into RNA by Transcription Using Unnatural Base Pair Systems.- Random Mutagenesis.- Mutagen™: A Random Mutagenesis Method Providing a Complementary Diversity Generated by Human Error-Prone DNA Polymerases.- Random-Scanning Mutagenesis.- Easy Two-Step Method for Randomizing and Cloning Gene Fragments.- Mutator Bacterial Strain Mutagenesis.- Random Mutagenesis Using a Mutator Strain.- En Passant Mutagenesis: A Two Step Markerless Red Recombination System.

From the reviews of the third edition:“This well-illustrated book details specialty tools successfully employed to unravel the intricacies of protein-protein interaction, protein-structure function, protein regulation of biological processes, and protein activity and mutagenesis methods for unique microbes as a guide to the generalization of mutagenesis strategies for a host of microbial systems. … Scientists, students, and others interested in the field of in vitro mutagenesis will find this extremely useful. … This book successfully describes a variety of in vitro mutagenesis protocols for scientists working in this area.” (Omer Iqbal, Doody’s Review Service, November, 2010)