Abstract
Antibody-based therapeutics is attracting more attention in the post-genome era, in contrast to a diminution in the initial high expectation for rapid development of gene-based therapeutic modalities. In support to the antibody-based therapeutics, the advent of recent technologies has made human antibody screening and production progressively more economic. Among those technologies, phage-display antibody library has been successfully applied in the antibody-based drug development both as fully human antibody sources and tools for antibody engineering. Building up a high-quality antibody library with a large library size and high diversity has been crucial for successful isolation of antibodies. Here we describe an efficient strategy for the construction of a large naïve phage-display human Fab library with one-step cloning. Optimization of each key step is extensively discussed and simplified protocols for library panning and Fab production are also described.
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This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, under contract N01-CO-12400. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government. This project is also funded by the NIH Biodefense Program (D.S.D.).
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Zhu, Z., Dimitrov, D.S. (2009). Construction of a Large Naïve Human Phage-Displayed Fab Library Through One-Step Cloning. In: Dimitrov, A. (eds) Therapeutic Antibodies. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 525. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-554-1_6
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