PMID- 16777066 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060821 LR - 20061115 IS - 0006-291X (Print) IS - 0006-291X (Linking) VI - 346 IP - 3 DP - 2006 Aug 4 TI - Construction and characterization of a pseudo-immune human antibody library using yeast surface display. PG - 896-903 AB - Lymphocytes from eight individuals out of 60 healthy donors, whose plasmas showed relatively higher antibody titer for a target antigen of death receptor 5 (DR5), were selected for the source of antibody genes to construct so called an anti-DR5 pseudo-immune human single-chain fragment variable (scFv) library on the yeast cell surface (approximately 2x10(6) diversity). Compared with a large nonimmune human scFv library (approximately 1x10(9) diversity), the repertoire of the pseudo-immune scFv library was significantly biased toward the target antigen, which facilitated rapid enrichments of the target-specific high affinity scFvs during selections by fluorescence activated cell sortings. Isolated scFvs, HW5 and HW6, from the pseudo-immune library showed much higher specificity and affinity for the targeted antigen than those from the nonimmune library. Our results suggest that a pseudo-immune antibody library is very efficient to isolate target-specific high affinity antibody from a relatively small sized library. FAU - Lee, Hae-Won AU - Lee HW AD - Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, San 5, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-749, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lee, Seung-Hyun AU - Lee SH FAU - Park, Kyung-Jin AU - Park KJ FAU - Kim, Jeong-Sun AU - Kim JS FAU - Kwon, Myung-Hee AU - Kwon MH FAU - Kim, Yong-Sung AU - Kim YS LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20060609 PL - United States TA - Biochem Biophys Res Commun JT - Biochemical and biophysical research communications JID - 0372516 RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin Variable Region) RN - 0 (Peptide Library) RN - 0 (Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand) RN - 0 (Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor) RN - 0 (TNFRSF10B protein, human) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Immunoglobulin Variable Region/*genetics/immunology/isolation & purification/*metabolism MH - *Peptide Library MH - Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand MH - Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/immunology MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics/immunology/*metabolism MH - Titrimetry EDAT- 2006/06/17 09:00 MHDA- 2006/08/22 09:00 CRDT- 2006/06/17 09:00 PHST- 2006/05/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2006/05/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/06/17 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/08/22 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/06/17 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-291X(06)01278-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.05.202 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 Aug 4;346(3):896-903. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.05.202. Epub 2006 Jun 9.