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Simon Krah1,2, Julius Grzeschik1, Simon Rosowski1
1Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
Yeast surface display is a versatile platform technology for antibody discovery. Nevertheless, the construction of antibody Fab libraries typically is a tedious multistep process that involves the generation of heavy chain as well as light chain display plasmids in different haploid yeast strains followed by yeast mating. Here, we present a focused one-step Golden Gate cloning approach for the generation of yeast surface display Fab libraries that allows for simultaneous introduction of heavy-chain and light-chain variable regions into one single display vector. Thereby, the overall time as well as the materials needed for library generation can be reduced significantly.
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