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Saturation mutagenesis

Saturation mutagenesis, or site saturation mutagenesis (SSM), or simply site saturation, is a random mutagenesis technique used in protein engineering, in which a single codon or set of codons is substituted with all possible amino acids at the position. There are many variants of the site saturation technique, from paired site saturation (saturating two positions in every mutant in the library) to scanning single-site saturation (performing a site saturation at each site in the protein, resulting in a library of size 20n, where n is the number of peptides in the protein, or n-site saturation, where n sites in a peptide would be site saturated, with a library size of 20n, where if the length of your peptide is n, a complete randomization is obtained.

Method
Saturation mutagenesis is commonly achieved by site-directed mutagenesis PCR with a randomised codon in the primers (e.g. SeSaM) or by artificial gene synthesis, with a mixture of synthesis nucleotides used at the codons to be randomised. Different degenerate codons can be used to encode sets of amino acids. Several computational tools were developed to allow high level of control over the degenerate codons and their corresponding amino acids. == Applications ==
Applications
Saturation mutagenesis is commonly used to generate variants for directed evolution. == See also ==
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