Tandem phage-display for the identification of non-overlapping binding pairs of recombinant affinity reagents
The 'sandwich' binding format, which uses two reagents that can bind simultaneously to a given analyte, is the gold standard in diagnostics and many biochemical techniques. One of the bottlenecks in creating a sandwich assay is identifying pairs of reagents that bind non-competitively to t...
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Published in | Nucleic acids research Vol. 45; no. 18; p. e158 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Oxford University Press
13.10.2017
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Summary: | The 'sandwich' binding format, which uses two reagents that can bind simultaneously to a given analyte, is the gold standard in diagnostics and many biochemical techniques. One of the bottlenecks in creating a sandwich assay is identifying pairs of reagents that bind non-competitively to the target. To bridge this gap, we invented Megaprimer Shuffling for Tandem Affinity Reagents (MegaSTAR) to identify non-competitive binding pairs of recombinant affinity reagents through phage-display. The key innovation in MegaSTAR is the construction of a tandem library, in which two reagents are randomly-displayed on the phage surface. This is accomplished by using a pool of 300-nucleotide long 'megaprimers', which code for previously-selected reagents, to prime second strand synthesis of a single-stranded DNA template and generate millions of pair-wise combinations. The tandem library is then affinity selected to isolate pairs that both reagents contribute to binding the target. As a proof-of-concept, we used MegaSTAR to identify pairs of fibronectin type III monobodies for three human proteins. For each target, we could identify between five and fifteen unique pairs and successfully used a single pair in a sandwich assay. MegaSTAR is a versatile tool for generating sandwich ELISA-grade and bispecific reagents. |
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ISSN: | 0305-1048 1362-4962 |
DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkx688 |