Background: Phenolic compounds, which are produced routinely by industrial and urban activities, possess dangers to live organisms and environment. Laccases are oxidoreductase enzymes with the ability of remediating a wide variety of phenolic compounds to more benign molecules. The purpose of the present research is surface display of a laccase enzyme with adhesin involved in diffuse adhesion (...

Reliable and robust systems for engineering functional major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) proteins have proved elusive. Availability of such systems would enable the engineering of peptide-MHCII (pMHCII) complexes for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. In this paper, we have developed a system based on insect cell surface display that allows functional expression of heterod...

Yeast surface display (YSD) is a powerful tool for engineering the affinity, specificity, and stability of antibodies, as well as other proteins. Since first described in 1997 by Boder and Wittrup, YSD has been employed successfully in engineering a number of antibodies, as well as T-cell receptors. A recently reported large nonimmune single chain antibody library serves as a good starting poin...

Since 3D medical images such as SPECT and MRI are taken under different patients positioning and imaging parameters, interpretation of them, as reconstructed originally, does not provide an easy and accurate understanding of similarities and differences between them. The problem becomes more crucial where a clinician would like to map accurately region of interest from one study to the ot...

A quantitative system for screening combinatorial single-chain Fv (scFv) antibody libraries was developed utilizing surface display on Escherichia coli and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). This system was employed to isolate clones with high-affinity to a fluorescently-labeled hapten from libraries constructed by randomizing heavy and light-chain residues in the anti-digoxin 26-10 de...