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Carl Borrebaeck

Carl Borrebaeck

Professor

Carl Borrebaeck

Surrogate antigens as targets for proteome-wide binder selection

Author

  • Elin Gustavsson
  • Sara Ek
  • Johanna Steen
  • Malin Nordström
  • Cajsa Älgenäs
  • Mathias Uhlén
  • Christer Wingren
  • Jenny Ottosson
  • Sophia Hober
  • Carl Borrebaeck

Summary, in English

In the past decade, many initiatives were taken for the development of antibodies for proteome-wide studies, as well as characterisation and validation of clinically relevant disease biomarkers. Phage display offers many advantages compared to antibody generation by immunisation because it is an unlimited resource of affinity reagents without batch-to-batch variation and is also amendable for high throughput in contrast to conventional hybridoma technology. One of the major bottlenecks to proteome-wide binder selection is the limited supply of suitable target antigens representative of the human proteome. Here, we provide proof of principle of using easily accessible, cancer-associated protein epitope signature tags (PrESTs), routinely generated within the Human Protein Atlas project, as surrogate antigens for full-length proteins in phage selections for the retrieval of target-specific binders. These binders were subsequently tested in western blot, immunohistochemistry and protein microarray application to demonstrate their functionality.

Department/s

  • Department of Immunotechnology
  • BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

302-311

Publication/Series

New Biotechnology

Volume

28

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Immunology in the medical area

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1876-4347