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bioRxivMay 2020 DOI:
10.1101/2020.05.11.089342

Phage-DMS: a comprehensive method for fine mapping of antibody epitopes

Garrett, Meghan E.; Itell, Hannah L.; Crawford, Katharine H.D.; Basom, Ryan; Bloom, Jesse D.; Overbaugh, Julie
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Abstract
Understanding the antibody response is critical to developing vaccine and antibody-based therapies and has inspired the recent development of new methods to isolate antibodies. However, methods to define the antibody-antigen interactions that determine specificity or allow escape have not kept pace. We developed Phage-DMS, a method which combines two powerful approaches - immunoprecipitation of phage peptide libraries and deep mutational scanning (DMS) - to enable high-throughput fine mapping of antibody epitopes. As an example, we designed sequences encoding all possible amino acid variants of HIV Envelope to create phage display libraries. Using Phage-DMS, we identified sites of escape predicted using other approaches for four well characterized HIV monoclonal antibodies with known linear epitopes. In some cases, the results of Phage-DMS refined the epitope beyond what was determined in previous studies. This method has the potential to rapidly and comprehensively screen many antibodies in a single experiment to define sites essential for binding to antigen.
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