Integrative proteomics identifies thousands of distinct, multi-epitope, and high-affinity nanobodies

Y Xiang, Z Sang, L Bitton, J Xu, Y Liu… - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
The antibody immune response is essential for the survival of mammals. However, we still
lack a systematic understanding of the antibody repertoire. Here, we developed a proteomic …

Generation of anti-infectome/anti-proteome nanobodies

G Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh, D Saerens… - … : Methods and Protocols, 2011 - Springer
The immunization of an animal with a whole proteome or the infection of an animal and the
screening of the resulting antibody repertoire on either the same or different proteome (s) or …

Fully synthetic platform to rapidly generate tetravalent bispecific nanobody–based immunoglobulins

L Misson Mindrebo, H Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Nanobodies bind a target antigen with a kinetic profile similar to a conventional antibody, but
exist as a single heavy chain domain that can be readily multimerized to engage antigen via …

Nanobodies: robust miniprotein binders in biomedicine

JYJ Kim, Z Sang, Y Xiang, Z Shen, Y Shi - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Variable domains of heavy chain-only antibodies (VHH), also known as nanobodies (Nbs),
are monomeric antigen-binding domains derived from the camelid heavy chain-only …

Exploiting nanobodies' singular traits

JR Ingram, FI Schmidt, HL Ploegh - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The unique class of heavy chain–only antibodies, present in Camelidae, can be shrunk to
just the variable region of the heavy chain to yield VHHs, also called nanobodies. About one …

Yeast surface display platform for rapid discovery of conformationally selective nanobodies

C McMahon, AS Baier, R Pascolutti… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
Camelid single-domain antibody fragments ('nanobodies') provide the remarkable specificity
of antibodies within a single 15-kDa immunoglobulin VHH domain. This unique feature has …

A robust pipeline for rapid production of versatile nanobody repertoires

PC Fridy, Y Li, S Keegan, MK Thompson, I Nudelman… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Nanobodies are single-domain antibodies derived from the variable regions of Camelidae
atypical immunoglobulins. They show promise as high-affinity reagents for research …

Comparative analysis of nanobody sequence and structure data

LS Mitchell, LJ Colwell - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobodies are a class of antigen‐binding protein derived from camelids that achieve
comparable binding affinities and specificities to classical antibodies, despite comprising …

Using nanobodies to study protein function in developing organisms

G Aguilar, S Matsuda, MA Vigano, M Affolter - Antibodies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies have been invaluable tools to study proteins over the
past decades. While indispensable for most biological studies including developmental …

NanoLAS: a comprehensive nanobody database with data integration, consolidation and application

S Xiong, Z Liu, X Yi, K Liu, B Huang, X Wang - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nanobodies, a unique subclass of antibodies first discovered in camelid animals, are
composed solely of a single heavy chain's variable region. Their significantly reduced …