“…An important biomedical application of DMS is the engineering of therapeutic proteins. 138 DMS in phage and yeast has been widely used for the affinity maturation of antibodies, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), peptides/small proteins, and decoy receptors for the treatment of viral infections, 139 , 140 parasitic infections, 141 cancer, 18 , 39 and other diseases. 142 DMS is also commonly used for antibody epitope mapping 19 , 143 and for the identification of potential escape variants in the context of viral infections.…”