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Nature Methods 5, 1003 - 1004 (2008)
Corrected online: 26 November 2008 | doi:10.1038/nmeth1208-1003



There is an Erratum (January 2009) associated with this News and Views.

On display on a bug: a systematic approach to characterize antibodies

Thomas Knorpp1 & Markus F Templin1

  1. Thomas Knorpp and Markus F. Templin are at the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen, Markwiesenstras zlige 55, 72770 Reutlingen, Germany.
    e-mail: templin@nmi.de


Efficient methods to characterize the binding properties of affinity reagents are required. A combination of bacterial surface display, flow cytometry and pyrosequencing is now used for high-speed mapping of the epitopes recognized by antibodies.

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* NOTE: In the version of this article initially published, Figure 1 was incorrectly described as having been adapted from Rockberry et al. The correct citation is Rockberg et al. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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