| abstract |
A phagemide has been constructed that expresses an antibody merged to coliphage pIII protein. The phagemide is suitable for selecting specific antibodies from large gene banks with small quantities of antigen. The antibody-pIII gene can be strongly repressed, so that it allows antibody banks to be amplified without the danger of deletion mutants predominating. After induction, large quantities of the merged protein may be expressed. |