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The 8 pages that link to Site-directed mutagenesis, each with the reason it gives.

• Active siteRelated: Changing an active-site residue can test its role in binding or catalysis.

• Protein engineeringBroader topic: It creates targeted protein variants for testing design hypotheses.

• Molecular cloningRelated: Cloned templates can be altered to test how specific sequence changes affect function.

• MutagenesisBroader topic: It tests how particular sequence changes affect gene or protein function.

• Enzyme engineeringBroader topic: It creates precise enzyme variants for testing individual amino-acid substitutions.

• Proteinogenic amino acidRelated: It enables controlled substitutions between proteinogenic amino acids in a protein.

• MutagenCompared with: Unlike exposure to a mutagen, this method targets a planned sequence alteration.

• Point mutationRelated: Researchers deliberately create point mutations to test gene and protein function.