Abstract
Recombinant antibody libraries based on chicken immunoglobulin genes are potentially valuable sources of phage displayed scFvs for use in veterinary diagnostics and research. The libraries described in this chapter are based on chicken variable heavy and light chain immunoglobulin genes joined by a short flexible linker cloned in the phagemid vector pHEN1. The resulting phagemids produce either scFvs displayed on the surface of the fusion phage subsequent to co-infection with helper phage, or soluble scFvs following IPTG induction. This chapter provides detailed and proven methods for the construction of such libraries.
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We thank Dr. Dion H du Plessis, our now retired research leader and mentor who started the phage display group. We are grateful to Dr. Marco Romito for the veterinary support, the good care of our chickens over the years and even taking them out for walks. The Medical Research Council (Cambridge, UK) for the gift of pHENI vector. Funders that made the work possible include Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research, Innovation Fund of the Department of Science and Technology, and National Department of Agriculture both of South Africa.
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Fehrsen, J., Wemmer, S., van Wyngaardt, W. (2018). Construction of Chicken Antibody Libraries. In: Hust, M., Lim, T. (eds) Phage Display. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1701. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7447-4_10
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