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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

Phage display peptide libraries: deviations from randomness and correctives.

Arie Ryvkin, Haim Ashkenazy, Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Chen Piller, Tal Pupko, Jonathan M Gershoni

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Peptide design by optimization on a data-parameterized protein interaction landscape.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arie RyvkinDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Haim AshkenazyDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Yael Weiss-OttolenghiDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Chen PillerDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Tal PupkoDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Jonathan M GershoniDepartment of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Tel Aviv University · IL

Funding

High throughput high resolution profiling of antibody specificities of polyclonalR21AI096940 · NIAID · TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · PI GERSHONI, JONATHAN MICHAEL · 2012 to 2013
$288k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI096940
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peptide-expressing phage display libraries are widely used for the interrogation of antibodies. Affinity selected peptides are then analyzed to discover epitope mimetics, or are subjected to computational algorithms for epitope prediction. A critical assumption for these applications is the random representation of amino acids in the initial naïve peptide library. In a previous study, we implemented next generation sequencing to evaluate a naïve library and discovered severe deviations from randomness in UAG codon over-representation as well as in high G phosphoramidite abundance causing amino acid distribution biases. In this study, we demonstrate that the UAG over-representation can be attributed to the burden imposed on the phage upon the assembly of the recombinant Protein 8 subunits. This was corrected by constructing the libraries using supE44-containing bacteria which suppress the UAG driven abortive termination. We also demonstrate that the overabundance of G stems from variant synthesis-efficiency and can be corrected using compensating oligonucleotide-mixtures calibrated by mass spectroscopy. Construction of libraries implementing these correctives results in markedly improved libraries that display random distribution of amino acids, thus ensuring that enriched peptides obtained in biopanning represent a genuine selection event, a fundamental assumption for phage display applications.

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Peptide LibraryAmino AcidsCell Surface Display TechniquesAmino AcidsPeptide Library

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PMID29420788
PMCPMC5961013
OpenAlexW2794223318

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