Phage display 噬菌体展示 技术
Introduction
• Invented by George P. Smith in 1985. • A method for the study of – protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein-DNA interactions
Applications
• Determination of interaction partners of a protein. • Determine tumour antigens (for use in diagnosis and therapeutic targeting). • Searching for protein–DNA interactions using specially-constructed DNA libraries with randomised segments. • In vitro protein evolution (also called protein engineering). • Drug discovery. • Finding new ligands (enzyme inhibitors, receptor agonists and antagonists) to target proteins.
Life Cycle of M13
M13 pIII & pVIII Coat-Protein System
• pIII minor Coat-Protein – Consist of 406 aa, 5 copies per phage. – Located at the tail of the phage. – Can display 300aa protein. • pVIII major Coat-Protein – 2700 copies per phage, 10% can used for display. – ~200 copies of fusion proteins per phage. – Proteins are usually small. – High affinity abilities because of high copy numbers.