Directed evolution of enzymes using microfluidic chips

Zdeněk Pilát; Jan Ježek; Filip Šmatlo; Jan Kaňka; Pavel Zemánek

doi:10.1117/12.2264377

23 December 2016 Directed evolution of enzymes using microfluidic chips

Zdeněk Pilát, Jan Ježek, Filip Šmatlo, Jan Kaňka, Pavel Zemánek

Proceedings Volume 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 101420A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2264377
Event: 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2016, Jasna, Slovakia

Abstract

Enzymes are highly versatile and ubiquitous biological catalysts. They can greatly accelerate large variety of reactions, while ensuring appropriate catalytic activity and high selectivity. These properties make enzymes attractive biocatalysts for a wide range of industrial and biomedical applications. Over the last two decades, directed evolution of enzymes has transformed the field of protein engineering. We have devised microfluidic systems for directed evolution of haloalkane dehalogenases in emulsion droplets. In such a device, individual bacterial cells producing mutated variants of the same enzyme are encapsulated in microdroplets and supplied with a substrate. The conversion of a substrate by the enzyme produced by a single bacterium changes the pH in the droplet which is signalized by pH dependent fluorescence probe. The droplets with the highest enzymatic activity can be separated directly on the chip by dielectrophoresis and the resultant cell lineage can be used for enzyme production or for further rounds of directed evolution. This platform is applicable for fast screening of large libraries in directed evolution experiments requiring mutagenesis at multiple sites of a protein structure.

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Zdeněk Pilát, Jan Ježek, Filip Šmatlo, Jan Kaňka, and Pavel Zemánek "Directed evolution of enzymes using microfluidic chips", Proc. SPIE 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 101420A (23 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2264377

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