title: Phage display in the study of infectious diseases.
abstract: Microbial infections are dependent on the panoply of interactions between pathogen and host and identifying the molecular basis of such interactions is necessary to understand and control infection. Phage display is a simple functional genomic methodology for screening and identifying protein-ligand interactions and is widely used in epitope mapping, antibody engineering and screening for receptor agonists or antagonists. Phage display is also used widely in various forms, including the use of fragment libraries of whole microbial genomes, to identify peptide-ligand and protein-ligand interactions that are of importance in infection. In particular, this technique has proved successful in identifying microbial adhesins that are vital for colonization.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbial Diseases, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LD, UK. l.mullen@eastman.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Mullen
authors.forename: Sean P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Andrew N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Rycroft
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003141:Communicable Diseases; D018604:Epitope Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017912:Inovirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D019151:Peptide Library
chemical_list: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D019151:Peptide Library