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Combining Phage Display and Next-Generation Sequencing for Materials Sciences: A Case Study on Probing Polypropylene Surfaces

New Paper released in Journal of the American Chemical Society.


Phage display biopanning with Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS) is applied to reveal insights into peptide-based adhesion domains for polypropylene (PP). One biopanning round followed by NGS selects robust PP-binding peptides that are not evident by Sanger sequencing. NGS provides a significant statistical base that enables motif analysis, statistics on positional residue depletion/enrichment, and data analysis to suppress false-positive sequences from amplification bias. The selected sequences are employed as water-based primers for PP–metal adhesion to condition PP surfaces and increase adhesive strength by 100% relative to nonprimed PP.

Full article link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.0c03482