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In vitro selection of bacteriophages displaying specific protein binders from large combinatorial libraries is a well-established and very powerful technology. Therapeutic antibodies that have been evolved by phage display are now on the market and various non-antibody scaffolds are currently being developed as the next-generation competitors. In this chapter, after presenting the many possible proteins that can be engineered by phage display, we describe some modern methods for generating highly diverse phage libraries as well as selection protocols and experimental tips that will help researchers implementing the technology in their laboratory.
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Urvoas, A., Minard, P., Soumillion, P. (2020). Phage Display Methodologies. In: Iranzo, O., Roque, A. (eds) Peptide and Protein Engineering. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0720-6_8
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