title: Construction and characterization of phage libraries displaying artificial proteins with random sequences.
abstract: Three phage libraries, PL1, PL2, and PL3, displaying artificial proteins with random sequences were constructed. The artificial proteins, which are model of ancestral proteins, are derivatives of the 25 kinds of random proteins with about 140 amino acid residues produced via random mutagenesis and combinatorial recombination. The random proteins were displayed on the surface of filamentous bacteriophage as fusion protein with the pIII coat protein at an estimated average number on the phage particles in PL1, PL2, and PL3 of 0.32, 0.32, and 0.08, respectively. Each library was shown to express 10(5) to 10(6) kinds of random proteins. With the phage libraries displaying long random peptides, we now have an effective selection system to observe in vitro evolution of new functional proteins from artificial proteins with random sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Nakashima
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authors.lastname: Ishiguro
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authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
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authors.lastname: Yamauchi
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authors.lastname: Nozaki
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authors.lastname: Urabe
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