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ArticleNature methods2025

PANCS-Binders: a rapid, high-throughput binder discovery platform.

Matthew J Styles, Joshua A Pixley, Tongyao Wei, Christopher Basile, Shannon S Lu, Bryan C Dickinson

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Computationally Evidence-Grounded Sequence-First Design of Peptide Binders.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Universal Baseline forbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Matthew J StylesDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Joshua A PixleyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-4564-5345
Tongyao WeiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Christopher BasileDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-9764-4745
Shannon S LuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-7520
Bryan C DickinsonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. dickinson@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9616-1911

Funding

VIRAL ONCOLOGY CORE FACILITYP30CA014599 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KUNLE ODUNSI · 1985 to 2026
$122.1M
Rapid selection approaches to understand and reprogram proteins and peptidesR35GM119840 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Bryan Dickinson · 2016 to 2026
$4.8M
Development of evolutionary technologies to reprogram protein-protein interactionsF32GM147968 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI STYLES, MATTHEW J · 2022 to 2025
$219k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014599NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM147968NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119840U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) F32GM147968U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) GM119840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins that selectively bind to a target of interest are foundational in research, diagnostics and therapeutics. Current approaches for discovering binders are laborious and time-consuming, taking months or more, and have a high failure rate. Here we establish phage-assisted noncontinuous selection of protein binders (PANCS-Binders), an in vivo selection platform that links the life cycle of M13 phage to target protein binding through proximity-dependent split RNA polymerase biosensors, allowing for comprehensive screening of whether a variant binds a target with high fidelity. We showcase PANCS-Binders by screening multiple protein libraries each against a panel of 95 separate targets, thereby individually assessing more than 10

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High-Throughput Screening AssaysProteinsBiosensing TechniquesHumansPeptide LibraryProtein BindingPeptide LibraryProteins

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PMID40770568
PMCPMC12328212

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