Virus-assisted directed evolution of enhanced suppressor tRNAs in mammalian cells
Kelemen, R.; Jewel, D.; Huang, R.; Zhu, Z.; Cao, X.; Pasha, M.; Anthony, J.; van Opijnen, T.; Chatterjee, A.
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Site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids (Uaas) in living cells relies on engineered aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs borrowed from a distant domain of life. Such heterologous suppressor tRNAs often show poor intrinsic activity, presumably due to the failure to optimally interact with a non-native translation system. This limitation can be addressed in E. coli using directed evolution. However, no suitable selection system is currently available to do the same in mammalian cells. Here we report virus-assisted directed evolution of tRNAs (VADER) in mammalian cells, which employs a double-sieve selection scheme to facilitate single-step enrichment of active-yet-orthogonal tRNA mutants from naive libraries. Using VADER, we developed improved mutants of M. mazei pyrrolysyl-tRNA, the most popular Uaa mutagenesis platform in eukaryotes. We also show that the higher activity of the most efficient mutants is specific for mammalian cells, alluding to an improved interaction with the unique mammalian translation system.
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