title: Strategies for the construction and use of peptide and antibody libraries displayed on phages.
abstract: Combinatorial chemistry and biology have become popular methods for the identification of bio-active molecules in drug discovery. A widely used technique in combinatorial biology is "phage display", by which peptides, antibody fragments and enzymes are displayed on the surface of bacteriophages, and can be selected by simple procedures of biopanning. The construction of phage libraries of peptides or antibody fragments provides a huge source of ligands and bio-active molecules that can be isolated from the library without laborious studies on antigen characteristics and prediction of ligand structure. This "irrational" approach for the construction of new drugs is extremely rapid and is now used by thousands of laboratories world-wide. The bottleneck in this procedure is the availability of large reliable libraries that can be used repeatedly over the years without loss of ligand expression and diversity. Construction of personalized libraries is therefore important for public and private laboratories engaged in the isolation of specific molecules for therapeutic or diagnostic use. Here we report the general strategies for constructing large phage peptide and antibody libraries, based on the experience of researchers who built the world's most widely used libraries. Particular attention is paid to advanced strategies for the construction, preservation and panning.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Biology Department, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Siena, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100, Siena, Italy. pinia@unisi.it
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pini
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giuliani
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: Ylenia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Runci
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bracci
mesh_terms: D000915:Antibody Affinity; D001435:Bacteriophages; D020650:Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques; D008024:Ligands; D018716:Molecular Mimicry; D019151:Peptide Library; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D019151:Peptide Library; D010455:Peptides