Evolutionary identification of affinity peptides for the detection of sepsis biomarker procalcitonin.
RSC Adv 2015. [DOI:
10.1039/c5ra20260d]
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Abstract
We demonstrate for the first time the use of phage display for the discovery of unique peptide motifs which are capable of binding to procalcitonin. The best peptide specific for procalcitonin was found to be 1.9 ± 0.001 nanomolar affinity.
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