The invention belongs to the technical field of
gene engineering, and particularly relates to a
directed evolution method and application. The method comprises the following steps: dividing a full-length
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequence of a target into at least two regions, respectively carrying out error-prone PCR (
polymerase chain reaction), carrying out full-length
sequence assembly on a
mutation region and an unmutated region, screening a target
mutant by adopting high
throughput, carrying out regional amplification on the obtained target
mutant to obtain a beneficial
mutation region, the beneficial
mutation region is amplified for full-length
sequence assembly, and finally, a target
mutant is obtained through high-
throughput screening. According to the method disclosed by the invention, by carrying out segmented error-prone PCR and directional
DNA shuffling on a full-length
DNA sequence, limited
digestion of DNase I or other restriction enzymes is not needed, so that reverse mutation of a
recombinant DNA region can be prevented from occurring from the source, accumulation and average distribution of beneficial mutations are ensured, the screening difficulty and strength of beneficial mutants are reduced, and the screening efficiency of the beneficial mutants is improved. The method can be widely applied to
molecular modification of proteins, enzymes or DNA sequences.