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ArticleViruses2022

Analysis of Compositional Bias in a Commercial Phage Display Peptide Library by Next-Generation Sequencing.

Ane Beth Sloth, Babak Bakhshinejad, Malte Jensen, Camilla Stavnsbjerg, Mikkel Baldtzer Liisberg, Maria Rossing, Andreas Kjaer

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Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Phage Display as a Promising Platform for Peptide Drug Discovery.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Application of phage surface display for the identification of EuFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Ane Beth SlothDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine & Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-6891-9812
Babak BakhshinejadDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine & Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5024-6688
Malte JensenDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine & Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camilla StavnsbjergDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine & Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mikkel Baldtzer LiisbergNano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7623-5453
Maria RossingCenter for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Andreas KjaerDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine & Cluster for Molecular Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2706-5547

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The principal presumption of phage display biopanning is that the naïve library contains an unbiased repertoire of peptides, and thus, the enriched variants derive from the affinity selection of an entirely random peptide pool. In the current study, we utilized deep sequencing to characterize the widely used Ph.DTM-12 phage display peptide library (New England Biolabs). The next-generation sequencing (NGS) data indicated the presence of stop codons and a high abundance of wild-type clones in the naïve library, which collectively result in a reduced effective size of the library. The analysis of the DNA sequence logo and global and position-specific frequency of amino acids demonstrated significant bias in the nucleotide and amino acid composition of the library inserts. Principal component analysis (PCA) uncovered the existence of four distinct clusters in the naïve library and the investigation of peptide frequency distribution revealed a broad range of unequal abundances for peptides. Taken together, our data provide strong evidence for the notion that the naïve library represents substantial departures from randomness at the nucleotide, amino acid, and peptide levels, though not undergoing any selective pressure for target binding. This non-uniform sequence representation arises from both the M13 phage biology and technical errors of the library construction. Our findings highlight the paramount importance of the qualitative assessment of the naïve phage display libraries prior to biopanning.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingPeptide LibraryAmino AcidsNucleotidesPeptidesAmino AcidsNucleotidesPeptide LibraryPeptidesbiopanningcompositional biasdeep sequencingdeparture from randomnessM13 phagenext-generation sequencingphage displayPh.D.TM-12 peptide libraryprincipal component analysis

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PMID36366500
PMCPMC9697088

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