Abstract
Antibody phage display is the most commonly used in vitro selection technology and has yielded thousands of useful antibodies for research, diagnostics, and therapy.
The prerequisite for successful generation and development of human recombinant antibodies using phage display is the construction of a high-quality antibody gene library. Here, we describe the methods for the construction of human immune and naive scFv gene libraries.
The success also depends on the panning strategy for the selection of binders from these libraries. In this article, we describe a panning strategy that is high-throughput compatible and allows parallel selection in microtiter plates.
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We thank Stefan Dübel for discussion and corrections on the manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the FP7 collaborative projects AffinityProteome (contract 222635) and AFFINOMICS (contract 241481). This review is an updated and revised version of [54, 79] and the professorial dissertation (Habilitation) of Michael Hust.
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Frenzel, A., Kügler, J., Wilke, S., Schirrmann, T., Hust, M. (2014). Construction of Human Antibody Gene Libraries and Selection of Antibodies by Phage Display. In: Steinitz, M. (eds) Human Monoclonal Antibodies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1060. Humana, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-586-6_12
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