Construction and evolution of antibody-phage libraries by DNA shuffling

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 100-102

  Crameri, Andreas ^a   Cwirla, Steve ^a   Stemmer, Willem P C ^a  

^a AFFYMAX RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR;

EID: 0030048583     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0196-100     Document Type: Short Survey

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