Abstract
Although single-domain antibodies derived from libraries prepared either after animal immunization or naïve animals generally exhibit reasonable affinity, it is often desirable to further improve their affinity. This chapter describes protocols for improving the affinity of single-domain antibodies using quantitative library sorting by yeast surface display. An example is included where we also exploit a complementary strength of phage display in generating larger sequence diversity prior to library sorting with yeast surface display.
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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grants R01 GM090324 and RC1 DA028779 to SK.
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Koide, A., Koide, S. (2012). Affinity Maturation of Single-Domain Antibodies by Yeast Surface Display. In: Saerens, D., Muyldermans, S. (eds) Single Domain Antibodies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 911. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-968-6_26
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