Phage display technology has emerged as the dominant approach in antibody engineering. Here I describe my work in developing a high-throughput method of reliably generating intracellular antibodies. In my first data chapter, I present the first known high-throughput pipeline for antibody-phage display libraries of synthetic diversity and I demonstrate how increasing the scale of both target production and library selection still results in the capture of antibodies to over 50% of targets. In my second data chapter, I present the construction and validation of a novel scFv-phage library that will serve as the first step in my proposed intrabody pipeline. Antibodies obtained from this library will be screened for functionality using a novel yeast-two-hybrid approach and have numerous downstream applications. This high-throughput pipeline is amenable to automation and can be scaled up to thousands of domains, resulting in the potential generation of many novel therapeutic reagents.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/30584 |
Date | 07 December 2011 |
Creators | Economopoulos, Nicolas |
Contributors | Sidhu, Sachdev |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | en_ca |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis |
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