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Combining phage display with SMRTbell next-generation sequencing for the rapid discovery of functional scFv fragments

Journal

MABS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2020.1864084

Keywords

Antibody discovery; rat immune libraries; phage display; long-read sequencing; scFv antibody; affinity modulation

Funding

  1. Cancer Research UK [515707]

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Phage display technology combined with next-generation sequencing is a cutting-edge method for monoclonal antibody isolation. Utilizing third-generation sequencing, this study successfully identified functional scFv antibodies from diverse libraries against CD160 and CD123 that were previously undetected by conventional screening methods.
Phage display technology in combination with next-generation sequencing (NGS) currently is a state-of-the-art method for the enrichment and isolation of monoclonal antibodies from diverse libraries. However, the current NGS methods employed for sequencing phage display libraries are limited by the short contiguous read lengths associated with second-generation sequencing platforms. Consequently, the identification of antibody sequences has conventionally been restricted to individual antibody domains or to the analysis of single domain binding moieties such as camelid VHH or cartilaginous fish IgNAR antibodies. In this study, we report the application of third-generation sequencing to address this limitation. We used single molecule real time (SMRT) sequencing coupled with hairpin adaptor loop ligation to facilitate the accurate interrogation of full-length single-chain Fv (scFv) libraries. Our method facilitated the rapid isolation and testing of scFv antibodies enriched from phage display libraries within days following panning. Two libraries against CD160 and CD123 were panned and monitored by NGS. Analysis of NGS antibody data sets led to the isolation of several functional scFv antibodies that were not identified by conventional panning and screening strategies. Our approach, which combines phage display selection of immune libraries with the full-length interrogation of scFv fragments, is an easy method to discover functional antibodies, with a range of affinities and biophysical characteristics.

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