Abstract
NEW ways of making antibodies have recently been demonstrated using gene technology. Immunoglobulm variable (V) genes are amplified from hybridomas or B cells using the polymerase chain reaction, and cloned into expression vectors. Soluble antibody fragments secreted from bacteria are then screened for binding activities (see ref. 1 for review). Screening of V genes would, however, be revolutionized if they could be expressed on the surface of bacteriophage. Phage carrying V genes that encode binding activities could then be selected directly with antigen. Here we show that complete antibody V domains can be displayed on the surface of fd bacteriophage, that the phage bind specifically to antigen and that rare phage (one in a million) can be isolated after affinity chromatography.
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McCafferty, J., Griffiths, A., Winter, G. et al. Phage antibodies: filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains. Nature 348, 552–554 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/348552a0
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