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Molecular evolution picks up the PACE

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Protein variants with improved properties can be rapidly generated by a phage-based system that enables continuous directed evolution.

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Figure 1: Phage-assisted continuous evolution.

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  1. Adam J. Meyer and Andrew D. Ellington are at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.,

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Meyer, A., Ellington, A. Molecular evolution picks up the PACE. Nat Biotechnol 29, 502–503 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1884

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