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. 1994 Sep 13;91(19):9022–9026. doi: 10.1073/pnas.91.19.9022

An in vitro polysome display system for identifying ligands from very large peptide libraries.

L C Mattheakis 1, R R Bhatt 1, W J Dower 1
PMCID: PMC44739  PMID: 7522328

Abstract

We have used an in vitro protein synthesis system to construct a very large library of peptides displayed on polysomes. A pool of DNA sequences encoding 10(12) random decapeptides was incubated in an Escherichia coli S30 coupled transcription/translation system. Polysomes were isolated and screened by affinity selection of the nascent peptides on an immobilized monoclonal antibody specific for the peptide dynorphin B. The mRNA from the enriched pool of polysomes was recovered, copied into cDNA, and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to produce template for the next round of in vitro synthesis and selection. A portion of the amplified template from each round was cloned into a filamentous phagemid vector to determine the specificity of peptide binding by phage ELISA and to sequence the DNA. After four rounds of affinity selection, the majority of clones encoded peptides that bound specifically to the antibody and contained a consensus sequence that is similar to the known epitope for the antibody. Synthetic peptides corresponding to several of these sequences have binding affinities ranging from 7 to 140 nM. The in vitro system described here has the potential to screen peptide libraries that are three to six orders of magnitude larger than current biological peptide display systems.

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