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ArticleBioTechniques2015

Introduction of plasmid encoding for rare tRNAs reduces amplification bias in phage display biopanning.

Benjamin J Umlauf, Michael J McGuire, Kathlynn C Brown

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Article in BioTechniques, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 authors.

Benjamin J UmlaufSRI International, Center for Chemical Biology, Harrisonburg, VA.
Michael J McGuireSRI International, Center for Chemical Biology, Harrisonburg, VA.
Kathlynn C BrownSRI International, Center for Chemical Biology, Harrisonburg, VA.

Funding

A Suite of Tumor Targeting Peptides for Personalized Therapy of Lung CancerR01CA164447 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI BROWN, KATHLYNN C · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA164447NCI NIH HHS R01CA164447
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amplification bias is a major hurdle in phage display protocols because it imparts additional, unintended selection pressure beyond binding to the desired target. One potential source of amplification bias is the inherent lack of codon optimization that occurs within phage display libraries. Here we present a method that reduces amplification bias by addition of a plasmid that encodes six low abundance tRNAs into K91 Escherichia coli. This new strain, termed K91+, is used to amplify phage during the selection process. We demonstrate the importance of rare codon usage in phage production, and our method produced an overall increase in uniformity of phage production in a random library. Both of these variables are improved in E. coli K91+ compared with the parental K91 strain. This simple solution, requiring only a commercially available plasmid and an additional antibiotic, can reduce amplification bias in phage display protocols.

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesAmino Acid SequenceBiasCell Surface Display TechniquesCodonMolecular Sequence DataPeptidesPlasmidsRNA, TransferTransformation, GeneticCodonPeptidesRNA, Transferamplification biasbiopanningcodon biascombinatorial peptide librariespeptidephage display

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PMID25652031
PMCPMC4810453

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