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The feasibility of using a combinatorial phage display library of decapeptides to identify ligands which can interact with the surface of a crystal was assessed using geological calcium carbonate as a model. Two relatively strong binding clones were identified by ELISA, sequenced and the encoded oligopeptides were prepared by solid phase synthesis and their properties compared with those of casein hydrolysate.
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Gaskin, D.J., Starck, K. & Vulfson, E.N. Identification of inorganic crystal-specific sequences using phage display combinatorial library of short peptides: A feasibility study. Biotechnology Letters 22, 1211–1216 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005603117023
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