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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1994

Direct selection for a catalytic mechanism from combinatorial antibody libraries.

K D Janda, C H Lo, T Li, C F Barbas, P Wirsching, R A Lerner

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Molecular evolution in static and dynamical landscapes.Journal of biological physics · 2002
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  7. Generation of recombinant antibodies.Molecular biotechnology · 1999
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  8. Selection for improved subtiligases by phage display.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1999
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  9. A method for directed evolution and functional cloning of enzymes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1998
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  10. Making chemistry selectable by linking it to infectivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1997
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  13. Synthetic human antibodies.Nature medicine · 1995
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K D JandaDepartment of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
C H Lo
T Li
C F Barbas
P Wirsching
R A Lerner
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semisynthetic combinatorial antibody library methodology in the phage-display format was used to select for a cysteine residue in complementarity-determining regions. Libraries were panned with an alpha-phenethyl pyridyl disulfide that undergoes disulfide interchange. Out of 10 randomly picked clones, two contained an unpaired cysteine, one of which was studied. The antibody catalyzed the hydrolysis of the corresponding thioester where the electrophilic carbonyl occupies the three-dimensional space that was defined by the reactive sulfur atom during selection. The reaction operates by covalent catalysis. Although the steady-state rate enhancement relative to the activated thiol ester substrate is modest, hydrolysis of the acylated cysteine intermediate is remarkably efficient with a catalytic advantage of about four orders of magnitude. The results suggest that iterative mechanism-based selection procedures can recapitulate the enzymatic mechanisms refined through evolution.

Indexed as

Selection, GeneticAmino Acid SequenceAntibodies, CatalyticCatalysisDisulfidesImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsModels, GeneticModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataAntibodies, CatalyticDisulfidesImmunoglobulin Fab Fragments

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PMID8146149
PMCPMC43403
OpenAlexW2090630611

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