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The NIH Protein Capture Reagents Program (PCRP): a standardized protein affinity reagent toolbox

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Selective affinity reagents are essential for characterizing protein levels, localization, and function; they are also important clinical diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents. The biomedical research community needs access to well-characterized, renewable, and high-quality protein affinity reagents. The uneven quality of commercially available research antibodies has recently drawn considerable concern1,2.

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Figure 1: Flowchart showing pipeline for rAb and mAb generation and validation.

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This work was supported by NIH grants U54HG006434, U01DC011485, and U54HG006436. The authors wish to sincerely thank the following individuals who have provided helpful and critical input into the production program throughout the past five years: A. Kossiakoff, J. Wells, S. Koide, S. Sidhu, S. Miersch, M. Paduch, M. Hornsby, and A. Saaf (Recombinant Antibody Network); J. Boeke, P. Mita, E. Albino, Z. Rivera-Pacheco, and P. Ramos (JHU/CDI); Jessica J. Smith (NIH OD Common Fund); J.S. Trimmer, M.J. Taussig (cochairs), W. Marasco, J. Scott, and G. Georgiou (PCRP External Scientific Panel); N. Starner, G. Halusa, R. Guthridge, G. Whiteley, and R. Roberts (Leidos Biomedical Research); C. Fletcher-Hoppe, T. Hiltke, C. Edmonds, and A. Felsenfeld (PCRP team); G. Montelione (Rutgers University); and R.M. Myers and M. Mackiewicz (HudsonAlpha). The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health or of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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    Seth Blackshaw & Anand Venkataraman

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  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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  16. Department of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Blackshaw, S., Venkataraman, A., Irizarry, J. et al. The NIH Protein Capture Reagents Program (PCRP): a standardized protein affinity reagent toolbox. Nat Methods 13, 805–806 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4013

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