title: Yeast surface display for protein engineering and characterization.
abstract: Yeast surface display is being employed to engineer desirable properties into proteins for a broad variety of applications. Labeling with soluble ligands enables rapid and quantitative analysis of yeast-displayed libraries by flow cytometry, while cell-surface selections allow screening of libraries with insoluble or even as-yet-uncharacterized binding targets. In parallel, the utilization of yeast surface display for protein characterization, including in particular the mapping of functional epitopes mediating protein-protein interactions, represents a significant recent advance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E19-563, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: S Annie
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gai
authors.forename: K Dane
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Wittrup
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D019151:Peptide Library; D011487:Protein Conformation; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D012995:Solubility
chemical_list: D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized; D019151:Peptide Library