Discovering peptide ligands using epitope libraries.
Discovering peptide ligands using epitope libraries.
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DOI:
10.1016/0968-0004(92)90401-t
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发表时间:
1992
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13.8
通讯作者:
Scott,JK
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作者:
Scott,JK
THE FOUNDATION FOR epitope libraries came from two parallel developments. Mario Geysen pioneered the concepts that (1) short peptides bearing critical binding residues (mimotopes) can chemically mimic the folded antigenic determinants on proteins (epitopes), and,(2) in many cases, the non-covalent bonds formed between a few critical residues from an epitope and its binding molecule or ligate* may make a major contribution to the total energy of binding. At about the same time, Stephen Parmley and George Smith developed a bacteriophage expression vector that could display foreign epitopes on its surface 2. This vector could be used to construct large collections of bacteriophage which could include virtually all possible sequences of a short (eg six-amino-acid) peptide. They also developed biopanning, a method for affinity-purifying phage displaying foreign epitopes using a specific antibody 2.Inspired by Geysen's work, Smith, McCutchan and de la Cruz postulated that it should be possible to use the recently developed expression-vector and biopanning technique to identify mimotopes from all possible sequences of a given length. This led to the idea of identifying peptide ligands for antibodies by biopanning epitope libraries, which could then be used in vaccine design, epitope mapping, the identification of genes and many other applications 2. Others suggested generalizing the use of epitope libraries to finding mimetic peptide ligands for other receptors, enzymes and other ligates, which would have tremendous potential in terms of drug discovery.