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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2005
Geoffrey T. Yarranton, Burlingame, CA (US);
Christopher R. Bebbington, San Mateo, CA (US);
Geoffrey T. Yarranton, Burlingame, CA (US);
Christopher R. Bebbington, San Mateo, CA (US);
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed generally to compositions and methods for obtaining secretion of antibodies or antigen-binding antibody fragments from prokaryotes without the need for a signal peptide through making use of mutant host strains with altered secretory properties. In particular, the invention provides host cells and methods for obtaining secretion of antibodies or antigen-binding antibody fragments from bacteria without the need for a signal peptide and provides diverse libraries of antibody sequence resulting from such methods. The invention additionally provides diverse libraries.