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Phage Display

Phage display technology is an in vitro screening technique for identifying ligands for proteins and other macromolecules. At the crux of phage display technology is the ability to express peptide or protein sequences as fusions to the coat proteins of a bacteriophage. Libraries of phage-displayed peptides or proteins are thereby physically linked to their encoding nucleic acid, allowing selection of binding partners for myriad target types by iterative rounds of in vitro panning and amplification, followed by DNA sequencing. Libraries of over a billion members can be screened in a matter of days, offering an efficient alternative to more traditional methods of epitope mapping, receptor ligand identification, or protein evolution.

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    • Fatima A, Wang H, Kang K, Xia L, Wang Y, Ye W, Wang J, Wang X. (2014) Development of VHH Antibodies against Dengue Virus Type 2 NS1 and Comparison with Monoclonal Antibodies for Use in Immunological Diagnosis PLoS One; 9(4), e95263. PubMedID: 24751715, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095263
    • McGuire MJ, Gray BP, Li S, Cupka D, Byers LA, Wu L, Rezaie S, Liu YH, Pattisapu N, Issac J, Oyama T, Diao L, Heymach JV, Xie XJ, Minna JD, Brown KC (2014) Identification and Characterization of a Suite of Tumor Targeting Peptides for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Sci Rep; 4, 4480. PubMedID: 24670678, DOI: 10.1038/srep04480
    • Kaur K, Taneja NK, Dhingra S, Tyagi JS (2014) DevR (DosR) mimetic peptides impair transcriptional regulation and survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under hypoxia by inhibiting the autokinase activity of DevS sensor kinase BMC Microbiol; 14, 195. PubMedID: 25048654, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-195
    • Grin I, Hartmann MD, Sauer G, Hernandez Alvarez B, Schütz M, Wagner S, Madlung J, Macek B, Felipe-Lopez A, Hensel M, Lupas A, Linke D (2014) A trimeric lipoprotein assists in trimeric autotransporter biogenesis in enterobacteria J Biol Chem; 289(11), 7388-98. PubMedID: 24369174, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.513275
    • Maneewatch S, Adisakwattana P, Chaisri U, Saengjaruk P, Srimanote P, Thanongsaksrikul J, Sakolvaree Y, Poungpan P, Chaicumpa W (2014) Therapeutic epitopes of Leptospira LipL32 protein and their characteristics Protein Eng Des Sel; 27(5), 135-44. PubMedID: 24760832, DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzu006
    • Matochko WL, Cory Li S, Tang SK, Derda R (2014) Prospective identification of parasitic sequences in phage display screens Nucleic Acids Res; 42(3), 1784-98. PubMedID: 24217917, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1104
    • Shires K, Shankland I, Mowla S, Njikan S, Jaymacker J, Novitzky N (2014) Serine and proline-rich ligands enriched via phage-display technology show preferential binding to BCR/ABL expressing cells Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther; 7(1), 32-40. PubMedID: 24480037, DOI: 10.1016/j.hemonc.2014.01.001
    • Baumgartner J, Carillo MA, Eckes KM, Werner P, Faivre D. (2014) Biomimetic Magnetite Formation From Biocombinatorial Approaches to Mineralization Effects Langmuir; 30(8), 2129-36. PubMedID: 24499323, DOI: 10.1021/la404290c
    • Nguyen KT, Adamkiewicz MA, Hebert LE, Zygiel EM, Boyle HR, Martone CM, Meléndez-Ríos CB, Noren KA, Noren CJ, Hall MF (2014) Identification and characterization of mutant clones with enhanced propagation rates from phage-displayed peptide libraries Anal Biochem; 462C, 35-43. PubMedID: 24952360, DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2014.06.007
    • Cieslewicz, M. et al (2013) Targeted delivery of proapoptotic peptides to tumor-associated macrophages improves survival Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 110, 15919-24. PubMedID: 24046373, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312197110
    • Lu, R.-M. et al (2013) Targeted drug delivery systems mediated by a novel peptide in breast cancer therapy and imaging PLoS One; 8(6), e66128. PubMedID: 23776619, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066128
    • Gonzalez, A.M. et al. (2011) Targeting choroid plexus epithelia and ventricular ependyma for drug delivery to the central nervous system BMC Nurosci; PubMedID: 21214926
    • Balian, G. et al. (2010) Peptides from phage display library modulate gene expression in mesenchymal cells and potentiate osteogenesis in unicortical bone defects J Vis Exp; 46, PubMedID: 21178970
    • Cao, Q. et al. (2010) Phage display probes for imaging early response to bevacizumab treatment Amino Acids; PubMedID: 20232090
    • Wu, C. and Tzertzinis, G.
Applications
  • Epitope mapping
  • Identification of protein-protein contacts (1) and enzyme inhibitors (2)
  • Discovery of peptide ligands for GroEL (3), HIV (4-7), semiconductor surfaces (8) and small-molecule fluorophores (9) and drugs (10) 
  • Bioactive receptor ligands have been identified both by panning against purified receptors (11-14) and against intact cells (15-18) 
  • Peptides which target specific cell types have been isolated by in vitro panning and used for cell-specific gene delivery (19-22)
  • Ligands for mold spores (23) and bacterial cells (24) have also been identified using this system, including a peptide that specifically inhibits anthrax toxin, both in vitro and in vivo (25)
  • Tissue-specific peptides have been isolated by in vivo panning, in which phage is injected into a live animal, the relevant organs harvested and phage isolated from each tissue type (26,27)

References

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Phage Display Overview
Panning with a phage display peptide library.
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