摘要 |
The invention is directed to methods of shuffling polynucleotide variants. The methods entail conducting a multi-cyclic polynucleotide extension process on partially annealed polynucleotide strands having sequences from the plurality of chosen polynucleotide variants, the polynucleotide strands having regions of similarity and regions of heterology with each other and being partially annealed through the regions of similarity, under conditions whereby one strand serves as a template for extension of another strand with which it is partially annealed to generate a population of shuffled polynucleotides. Shuffled polynucleotides are then selected or screened to identify a shuffled polynucleotide having a desired functional property.
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