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Phage Display Library Screening Service

Phage display screening technology has been applied in fields such as cell signal transduction, protein recognition sites, and drug development, in addition to studying antigen epitopes.
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Phage Display Library Screening Service

Alpha Lifetech has been deeply engaged in Phage display technology for many years. It has built a perfect stable Phage display technology platform that saves time for scientific research time or project research and facilitates subsequent production. Alpha Lifetech can also provide customers with services such as vhh antibody production, scFv antibody production, Fab Antibody production.
Alpha Lifetech has a comprehensive M13/T7 phage display platform to ensure the construction and production of antibody libraries. We can also provide customized services, such as antibody scFv production and high-throughput antibody screening, to meet your needs.

Phage Display Library Construction Process

The process of phage library construction is as follows: specific primers are designed for PCR amplification that obtains the products, which are enzyme-ligated with the T7/M13 phage vector, and the recombinant phage plasmid is successfully constructed. The recombinant phage plasmid was transformed into TG1 receptor cells, then coated on a medium containing appropriate antibiotics, and expanded culture was performed after screening the transformers. After multiple rounds of culture, the phage replicates replication times in the bacteria and successfully expresses the target protein or polypeptide. Then the phage library is purified to remove some impurities and unbound phages.

Phage Display Library Screening Methods

The success of phage display antibody production mainly depends on antibody phage display libraries, and the common methods of phage panning are solid-phase and liquid-phase screening. Solid-phase antigen screening enriches specific antibodies through 3-4 rounds of elution to obtain antibody phage display libraries; Liquid-phase antigen screening is performed by incubating biotin-labeled target and antibody phage display libraries and capturing bound phages using magnetic beads. Solid-phase screening consumes more antigen and some antigen epitopes are destroyed. Liquid-phase screening is characterized by high efficiency and enrichment, but the antibodies obtained are less specific. The method of phage panning depends on the experimental needs, all of which will have a certain impact on the effect of phage display antibody production.

High Throughput Antibody Screening

Antibody development has become rapidly in modern medicine. Different antibody development methods exist, but high throughput antibody screening is used more in medical science. The process can obtain a large amount of antibody repertoire diversity. Combining with traditional antibody library screening methods can improve the screening quality of phage display libraries. After biological screening, antibodies can be characterized by low-throughput ELISA or high-throughput antibody screening.
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Fig.1 Flow chart outlining the sequence of events from the construction of phage antibody libraries to the generation of monoclonal antibodies with high affinity for antigens and low immunogenicity. (Reference source: Phage Display Technology as a Powerful Platform for Antibody Drug Discovery - PMC (nih.gov))

Precautions for Antibody Phage Display ScreeningPrecautions

Buffer Considerations

The selection of buffers should take into account the stability of the target, the binding microenvironment, and minimal non-specific binding in the actual application scenario. Unrelated proteins, non-ionic detergents, and physiological salt concentrations is conducive to reducing the background. There are also other conditions, such as some targets may require the addition of bivalent cations or other cofactors to the buffer, protein cofactors can be co-fixed with the target, can be added to the sorting buffer, and even can be used as a means of capturing the target.

Pressure Considerations

Common selection pressure considerations include concentration of target molecules, binding time, washing intensity, etc. Other techniques for increasing selection pressure include the use of denaturants (such as acids, urea, and guanidine), organic solvents, increasing temperature, or increasing the concentration of competing ligands or targets in the washing buffer.
Among them, the first round of screening is important. The first round of screening is to capture as many positive clones as possible from the constructed library while removing non-specific clones. Porous-coated targets or a large number of soluble targets should be used to ensure that a large number of bound phages are captured to maintain the diversity of the library. In subsequent rounds of screening, the selection pressure should be increased with the increase of enrichment, multiple washing, and increasing the washing time, clones with high affinity can be screened.

Negative Screening Strategy

Antigen tags and carrier materials the screening process is to screen for all substances on the antigen conjugates, such as tags, fusion proteins, and supporting substrates. Negative screening of non-targets can limit the enrichment of antibodies other than the target antigen.
Whole cells, liposomes, nano-phospholipid discs, and VLPs can be negatively screened using simulated transfected cells or untransfected cells when screening transfected cell lines.
Removal of complex antigen mixtures Strict negative screening can be performed for unknown or complex target molecules, such as whole cells or impure proteins.
The strategy of antibodies against specific sites of antigens, one is to eluate the antibody that can compete with the ligand by adding a high concentration of ligands, and the other is to block the antibody.

Application of Phage Display

*Antibody discovery has become increasingly important in modern medicine. Different antibody discovery approaches exist, but phage display technology is used more in medical science. Since 1990, different antibody formats have been used to construct phage libraries, including VHs, VHHs, scFvs, diabodies, and Fab antibodies.
*Phage peptide libraries allow the rapid determination of the sequence of protein epitopes and have become a powerful tool for investigating the interaction between epitopes and antigen receptors
*Antibody fragments are fused to the G3P of the M13 phage, and by cloning large numbers of genes encoding an antibody fragment, large phage display antibody libraries can be generated from which many diverse antibodies can be selected.
*The T7 phage display system has many advantages, including simplicity, high safety, stability, easy storage, and transportation, so the system is used in preventive and therapeutic vaccines.
*The T7 phage display system can detect various antigens, such as surface antigens of pathogenic microorganisms and cancer antigens.

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